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Resistance welding in its several forms, like arc welding, has made notable contributions to defense production. Commonest form is spot welding: two pieces of thin metal are fused together by the heat generated, due to their electrical resistance when an electric current passes through them. Unlike arc welding, melting of the current-feeding electrode is avoided by: 1) making the electrode partly of copper, whose resistance is very low; 2) mixing the copper, through powder-metal techniques (TIME, Sept. 29), with compounds whose melting point is far higher than steel's; 3) cooling the electrode with water...
Both observers and newsmen reported that the nimble lights could wheel and pirouette faster than the German tanks; that the thin side armor of German mediums was poor protection against the 37-mm. cannon of the U.S.-made tanks...
Shadow of the Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is more aptly titled than was meant. This fourth working of a once-rich lode comes up with very little pay dirt. Its great-grandparent, The Thin Man, made as a quickie seven years ago, grossed a million or so dollars and incidentally delighted U.S. cinemillions with the brand-new Hollywood discovery that a man and his wife could be in love with each other...
...withdrawn were they in power. For if it is necessary for them to overthrow the government by force (as they apparently would like to do--else why do they advocate it?), it follows then that they and their constituents are in a minority. From this fact it is, I thin, reasonable to deduce that in order to remain in power our hypocritically successful revolutionists would themselves find it necessary to suppress freedom of speech...
...devices of a lecturer who is accustomed to talking down. That the book can succeed at all against such malpractice is a tribute 1) to neatness and effort, 2) to the plain grandeur of the subject. Its literary honors will be few; and its royalties belong, by rights, to thin...