Word: white-hot
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...city of steel, was dark, dirtier than ever as smoke belched from chimneys and rolled along the Monongahela. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, ore was fed into blast furnaces, cooked, tapped out in molten iron streams. Open-hearth and Bessemer furnaces converted iron into white-hot steel which was molded into ingots, rolled and tortured into flat slabs, long, thin blooms. In strip mills, finishing plants, hot metal and cold metal was drawn and pressed into tubes, sheets and ropes of steel-the very sinews of war. Sound filled the cavernous mills: thunder of machinery, shriek...
...while they worked, shuffling home after their eight hours to their ugly homes in Duquesne, Clairton, Homestead, on the cliffs of Pittsburgh's South Side. The grimy little men and their doings were far less spectacular than the infernal mills. But if the men quit, so would the white-hot flow of steel...
Later the brash Colonel showed up as the head of a formidable outfit which looked much like Hitler's Elite Guard-the Japan Youth Party, claiming 100,000 ardent members. Its flag, a white sun against a red ball, symbolized "bloodred patriotism under a white-hot sun." The commander of this private army boasted: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit still and talk...
...Last week they were told to buzz out. A big party meeting was called to blast Stalinism out of A. L, P. ranks. Speaker after speaker denounced the Soviet. Then the A. L. P. men melted together all the high-Fahrenheit words they could find, forged a white-hot resolution that seared the "red and brown dictatorships" for "their shameless, hypocritical acts," their "brazen conduct," finally branded their U. S. apologists as "antiDemocratic, anti-humanitarian, antilabor, and the blind servants of the Russian international policy...
...simply glass drawn superfine, was made in Germany as far back as 1878. But this German product was coarse, expensive, heavy, crudely made (example: a woman on a jacked-up bicycle would pedal the fibre onto the back wheel). Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. will make fibre by forcing white-hot glass through tiny orifices with a jet of steam. Resulting fibres are 2/10,000 of an inch in diameter. About 100 of them are twisted into a strand of yarn which looks and feels like wool...