Word: stainlessness
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...children in a corrugated zinc hut. Dr. Karl Ritter and Frau Dore Koervin had abandoned their respective spouses to seek Utopian freedom. Dr. Ritter was a dentist. Thinking of life 800 miles from an electric drill, he had all his own teeth pulled, substituting an indestructible set of stainless steel grinders...
Sordid indeed to a man like Sir Kingsley is the memory of how, when he distributed 2,000 holders and 9,000 stainless steel nibs last year to branch post offices, more than 1,200 vanished in the first month. Undaunted, Sir Kingsley last week planned to distribute 10,000 more pens. But these will be bright red, stamped conspicuously with the monogram...
...briefly radioactive, and all quickly returned to their original bases. The Curie-Joliot work proved that theorists have a pretty accurate understanding of how the atom works. By-&-by an engineer may use the information to make a steam engine run more efficiently. Metallurgists may make better kinds of stainless steel. Physiologists may prevent rickets and tooth decay, treat cancer...
...Professor Black's experiment a beam of light from a small are is passed through a slit, through a half-silvered mirror, and onto a rapidly rotating stainless steel mirror. This sends the light down the length of a corridor in the Research Building, through a special longfocus lens, and onto a plane mirror which reflects it back to the rotating mirror and thence to the half-silvered glass. The opacity of this glass diverts part of the light beam into a microscope where the image of the slit may be watched closely. Because of its great speed, the rotating...
...settled in court. If Mr. Weir wins it will be a sad setback for Senator Wagner. Budd Manufacturing. Next most vexing case to Senator Wagner concerns Edward Gowen Budd, Philadelphia manufacturer who built up a big business in all-steel automobile bodies and now is be- ginning to make stainless steel streamlined trains. Last November 1,300 of his workers went on strike charging that the company was trying to prevent the A. F. of L. from organizing its plants. The Regional Labor Board ordered Budd to take back the strikers and hold an election. Budd refused and refused again...