Word: steele
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...armies was the more complete in that most of their attack equipment, massed in the east for a drive on Alexandria and Cairo, had been lost. (The British were astonished at how heavily the Italians had planned to travel, and also at curious shortages in the equipment, especially steel helmets, barbed wire.) Graziani, in explaining himself to Mussolini, put the blame of his defeat on a shortage of tanks. While Graziani worked desperately to reform his Army, the British surrounded Bardia with artillery and infantry. The R. A. F., ranging even more widely, rained bombs on Tobruch. Derna, even...
General Electric Research Laboratories in Schenectady last week unveiled a giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...
...rays, like tigers, are safer when caged. The walls of the 100-ft.-by-35-ft. building housing the machine are 14 inches of concrete plus twelve inches of brick. At one end of the room is a big door of 18-inch concrete encased in one inch of steel. When the machine is ready to go, the researchers leave the room through this door. Then the machine is turned on at a remote control panel...
...dump orders of $41,000,000 a day in industry's lap. The important fact about these orders was that they were for capital goods. For the first time in more than a decade, industry's prime mover-capital-goods expansion-agitated the indexes again. The steel rate soared from 60% of capacity (April) to 92% in September. At 11:30 p.m., on Dec. 9, steelworkers finishing the second shift also finished an era. They cast the years 60,835,000th ton of ingots, and thereby put 1940 ahead of the previous peak steel year...
...executive of U. S. Steel, left out of a fishing trip because he snored, invented an anti-snorer to wake him up when he rolled on his back...