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...Energy. To establish the strength of a metal engineers squeeze or pull (static tests) or hit (impact test) a sample piece until it breaks. Though one test is as good as another, none really explains why an automobile bolt occasionally cracks, an airplane strut snaps, a battleship's armor plate yields. By building a machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some of their...
...amendment. . . ." To the declaration for a "sound currency" he added "convertible into gold . . . [but not] unless it can be done without penalizing our domestic economy." To the declaration for extension of civil service, he added a special dart aimed at Postmaster Farley, weakest joint in Franklin Roosevelt's armor: "There should be included within the merit system every position in the administrative service below the rank of assistant secretaries of major departments and agencies, and . . . this inclusion should cover the entire Post Office Department...
Unknown to the undergraduate, groups have been at work for the last three years in an attempt to weigh down the back of his study door with brass armor plate. It's all a part of a general campaign to equip each room of the College with a complete roster of all former occupants. For example, we quote from a letter recently received by the Alumni Bulletin from a Mr. Miles L. Hanley of Madison, Wisconsin, who took a Masters degree here in 1927 and who appears to be one of the leaders of the present drive...
...Depression, the crash of Florida real estate, the U. S. abandonment of the gold standard. He personally considers his fellow-capitalists "a very stupid lot." When the U. S. entered the War, he was 40. He offered himself to the Government as purchasing agent for steel helmets and body armor, became a Captain of the Army's Ordnance Department...
...19th Century, when it was tried as an alloy for tool steels. Sulphur in the moly compounds then available un did what good the metal contributed, with the result that tungsten became the stand ard steel hardener. Not until the War, when it was employed in guns, motors, light armor plate, did moly impress steel makers...