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Word: smelting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stone Age. The most basic course, he said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival technology." Items: "How to make acorn meal, how to make simple traps, how to tan leather, how to make simple tools and weapons from stone, how to smelt ore, how to find safe drinking water, how to recognize poisonous plants, how to keep an infant alive without milk." In sum: "A plainly pessimistic but utterly realistic course designed to keep at least a few of our most intelligent people alive for as long as possible following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Basic Science | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

This discontent is furthered by by having comparatively the best education in the Caribbean. Having smelt the fruit, they find it unattainable...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The British West Indies: Federation | 11/15/1957 | See Source »

Into the Armco Steel Corp. plant at Houston this week rolled three carloads of iron smelted by a radical new process. Developed by a Hungarian-born inventor, Julius Madaras, and financed by Oilman Clint Murchison and others, the process eliminates the blast furnace and promises to smelt iron cheaper and faster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Rival for the Blast Furnace | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...Arthur D. Little, Inc. (TIME, April 1) is developing its own process, using patents from the Esso Research & Engineering Co. It was petroleum scientists who first learned how to extract hydrogen cheaply from natural gas or petroleum, and also how to use gas pressures from below to smelt ore. This "fluidized bed" method of ore-handling is used by all direct-reduction processes except the R-N method. ¶Hydrocarbon Research. Inc. and Bethlehem Steel have developed and extensively tested their "H-Iron" process. This process has the unique distinction of being the only one on which detailed cost figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Rival for the Blast Furnace | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...edge of the barren red cliffs. Today Elath is a port settlement of 500, with a jetty, barracks, airfield, a prefab town hall, a power plant, botanical garden and stadium. By next year Elath is to house the first of up to 12,000 Israelis, who will smelt and ship 7000 tons of copper a year from the newly reopened King Solomon's mines, high in the flinty heart of the Negev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Eyes on Elath | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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