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Telltale Tracers. Many radioisotopes are so short-lived that they must be rushed to their destinations by air and used at once, before their radioactivity has been frittered away. The Clinton Laboratories pop them into stainless steel and lead containers (weighing up to 1,600 Ibs.) and speed them by truck to the Knoxville airport. Prices vary widely. Carbon 14, one of the big sellers, costs $50 per millicurie* (if made by the old-fashioned cyclotron method, it would cost $1,000,000). In the past year Oak Ridge made 1,092 shipments to 161 U.S. users, none to foreign...
...delighted with the sample plating he produced; orders flowed in and competitors began a wild but fruitless campaign to discover Magee's secret. A few weeks ago O'Connor gleefully put it into commercial production, a process which involved running an electric current through a 300-gal. stainless steel vat full of the perilous fluid...
Died. Edward G. Budd, 75, founder-president of the $80,000,000 Budd Co., which made the first marketable all-steel automobile body in 1912, the first streamlined stainless steel train (Zephyr) in 1934; of a heart attack; in Germantown...
...Mercury grills, now die-cast, will be made out of stainless steel stampings to save approximately...
...face and instinctively gentle manners. His expression ordinarily was one of harassed patience. I never once saw him lose his temper, in spite of maddening and innumerable provocations. When they became unendurable, he would merely sigh, run his fingers through his rumpled tussock of greying hair and grit his stainless steel teeth. (That's the usual material for bridgework in the U.S.S.R. because of the shortage of dental porcelain...