Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wormed out the further fact that the d'Abernon mission had arranged an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of £16,000,000 ($77,760.000) to facilitate the mutual buying and selling provided for in the main agreement. The usually well-informed La Prensa declared that the British Government would use its £8,000,000 ($38,880,000) purchases of Australian food and raw materials "to feed and clothe the British Army and Navy...
...hard steel. Steel plus a trifle of manganese gives an alloy hard enough, when fabricated into rails, to support heavy subway traffic. If with manganese steel a bit of molybdenum is mixed, the alloyed steel is still harder. G. M. Eaton of Molybdenum Corp. of America advised railroads to use the molybdenum steel for rails. It would support the heavier locomotives and trains that U. S. transportation is requiring. X-rayed Metals. Use X-rays for detecting blowholes, pinholes, porosity, shrinks and refractory and other foreign matter in metal castings, particularly those made of aluminum, urged W. L. Fink...
...small tank of peculiar gas." dreamily predicted Chicago's Robert G. Guthrie, nominated to succeed Cleveland's Zay Jeffries as President of the American Society for Steel Treating, sponsors of the Congress. Mr. Guthrie's prediction followed his exposition on special furnaces in which gases are used to surface steel. Metals absorb gases, a phenomenon only now being put to industrial use. Konel Metal. News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result...
...Wells used a phrase like this: 'Life will use me for its purpose.' That appears to me exactly like a man jumping from the top of Westminster Cathedral and saying, The force of gravity will use...
Domestic Scientist Alice Foote MacDougall says: "Remember that cleanliness is next to godliness and invest everything that you use in connection with coffee with a god-like cleanliness...