Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is no money for a dot then she rationally faces the alternatives of spinsterhood in its more or less appetizing forms. These in France can be either. The French spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot go on the stage, open a bank account or obtain a French passport without her husband's explicit consent...
...Russian workmen were working fast to move one rail 3½ inches outward on each of nine roadbeds across the east of old Poland, to make them wide enough for Russian rolling stock bringing supplies to Germany. (Standard gauge was kept on the line from Przemysl through Lwów down to Cernauti, Rumania, over which oil reaches Germany, now under German guard...
Carburization turns a soft iron wire into steel in one minute. The wire is heated in a hydrogen atmosphere to prevent oxidation. The hydrogen, bubbling through alcohol, picks up alcohol vapor. This vapor contains carbon, which inter acts with the hot iron to make it steel. The Westinghouse people devised this exhibit to show the new importance of controlled atmospheres in hardening commercial steel parts...
Adam Ramage was a handy Scots wood-joiner who emigrated to the U. S. around 1790 and went into the business of making printers' materials. He built his first presses out of Honduras mahogany, added iron to beds and platens to make them durable, finally abandoned wood for iron throughout. Ramage's presses helped to found many a great U. S. newspaper, stamped many a page of U. S. history on single sheets of dampened paper before Robert Hoe developed the revolving press...
Savannah's late, great Chemist Charles Holmes Herty spent the last eight years of his life trying to make commercial newsprint out of Southern pines. In his laboratory he found a process that worked, but he died in 1938, before the South's lumbermen could build him a mill. What kept Dr. Herty at his labors (and excited many a Southern businessman) was the prospect of another rich, new industry to help along the South's industrial revival...