Word: vulcanize
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...piling up a crack operations record for the U.S.'s biggest air transportation company. To get Damon, Republic had to promise to give him back to American when peace came. But as long as war lasts, 44-year-old Ralph Damon will turn out Thunderbolts like an equable Vulcan who wastes no time in rages...
...rather than rubberlike elastomers, are Goodrich's Koroseal, Union Carbide & Chemical's Vinyon, etc. Most of these are synthetic resins, i.e., plastics flexible enough for use in hose, fuel-tank seals, etc. Thiokol, made by Dow Chemical Co., is used as a barrage-balloon coating by the Vulcan Proofing Co. of Brooklyn...
...subsidiary called Vulcan Iron Works (WilkesBarre) makes locomotives, other heavy machinery, castings. A plant in Brooklyn produces telescopic sights...
...year. Calculations of classical Newtonian gravitation predict some shift, but not nearly so much as that actually observed. In desperation a French astronomer named Leverrier decided that the rest of the shift must be due to an unseen planet even closer to the sun than Mercury. Leverrier called it "Vulcan." He looked long and hard for it. Once a doctor peering through a telescope thought he saw Vulcan. He and Leverrier announced the discovery, were given banquets and medals for their find. But they never saw it again, nor did anyone else. Apparently "Vulcan" does not exist...
...painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city, T. C. I. spent $29,000,000 on expansion in 1936, has spent more millions since. Today, Birmingham has a score of skyscrapers, a church for every 700 citizens, a 53-foot cast-iron statue of Vulcan (atop a WPA-built, 120-foot pedestal) in Red Mountain Park...