Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eagle's share of fighting the war, squelching that party in an election is the nadir of diplomatic ineptitude. It makes as little sense as pelting the British Ambassador with eggs. News of the New York development will be first priority propaganda for the Nazi radio. Such crude methods of separating radical chaff from political wheat actually supply ready-made grist for Goebbels' mill...
...hardest job in constructing homemade telescopes is grinding the mirrors. These must be accurate to within 1/400,000 inch, and amateur telescopists regard opticians-who grind spectacle lenses to within only 1/10,000 inch-as crude workmen. To make a mirror, two flat slabs of glass are rubbed together off center with fine abrasives in between. Slowly a concave parabolic surface is formed on one slab, which is then coated with silver. The work is all done by hand; it is not considered sporting to use a grinding machine unless it too is homemade. The average homemade telescope represents...
...tire industry told WPB that with only 4,500 tons of crude (less than 1% of the remaining U.S. stockpile) and 234,000 tons of reclaim (about one-third of U.S. two-year capacity) it can recap enough old tires, make enough new ones of reclaimed rubber to meet the irreducible minimum-replacement demand to keep all present cars on the road. But the press underplayed the industry's quid pro quo for the miracle: To achieve it, said the tiremen, every car, truck and bus in the U.S. will have to cut its usual mileage an average...
Sometimes this reclaimed solid crude is further reduced to a liquid latex. It is kneaded in water with a soapy "dispersing agent" until the rubber molecules lose their attraction for each other and disperse to form an even suspension in the water. From such latexlike dispersions are made heavy, industrial rubber gloves and other dipped articles, as well as rubberized fabrics like raincoats...
Yield of rubber from different articles varies greatly: 100 lb. of crude can be reclaimed from 140 lb. of inner tubing, 165 lb. of bathing caps and shoes, or 175 lb. of hot-water bags. Some 94 tons of rubber gloves can yield the 75 tons of crude used in building a large warship. Five old overshoes are enough for one Army raincoat...