Word: stainlessness
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...Mullen's results are rarely as heroic as her efforts. Already on their way to the 1,000-year-distant scrap heap are her portraits of Conductor Eugene Ormandy in chromium; Governor Herbert Lehman in britannia, Nelson Eddy in aluminum, General John Pershing (in stainless steel on the observation car of Burlington's General Pershing Zephyr). She has done others in pewter, gold, brass, glass and wood. Recently at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Navy officials dedicated her stainless steel murals Hong Kong Harbor and London Pool-two great scenes of British shipping...
...Some other leading industrial designers noted for work on U.S. railroads: Henry Dreyfuss, who designs for the New York Central; Walter Dorwin Teague, who has done de luxe coaches for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Paul Cret, who designs interiors for stainless-steel trains of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing...
...remarked that some of the substitute materials in its merchandise "have been found to be far superior to the metal they have replaced. . . ." Examples: washing machine agitators, formerly aluminum, are now of Bakelite, vitreous china, enamel or plastic, all impervious to alkalis; a pump unit, formerly of brass and stainless steel, will use corrosion-resisting plastics...
...Wisconsin's dairy country, tank trucks lug thousands of gallons of milk in their stainless steel bellies, to plants where it is turned to butter and cheese, or condensed and powdered for storing. In Iowa, where more than 2,000,000 sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...
...Aluminum weighs one-third as much as steel, but [stainless] steel is more than four times as strong as aluminum in pull and tension. Recent developments in structure mathematics now enable us, even in small planes, to build trusses of thin stainless steel of equal weight to duralumin [an alloy containing 95% aluminum, 4% copper, ½ % manganese and ½ % magnesium while in larger ships there is a greater advantage to the steel construction...