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  • "The consensus of the best metallurgical authorities," he said, "seems to be highly skeptical about Rearden Metal, contending—"†   (source)
  • The second was the man who had overseen the team division responsible for sifting the wreckage for metallurgical evidence.†   (source)
  • He also wants to learn more about metallurgy, and he's especially eager to study industrial electronics.†   (source)
  • The metallurgist was a necessity.†   (source)
  • He's been talking himself hoarse for days, and the scribes are taking it all down-geology, mining, metallurgy, petroleum chemistry ....†   (source)
  • The metallurgy group is working on the development of exceptionally strong and light-weight metals.
  • He was a pioneer in powder metallurgy.
  • Well, metallurgy is not exactly-what shall we say?†   (source)
  • You're also a metallurgist and know that neither composition is pure nickel iron.†   (source)
  • I don't blame our metallurgical department!" he said angrily.†   (source)
  • in charge of it now, who used to be my best metallurgist in Chile.†   (source)
  • The crews had remained at work, under a Taggart engineer and a Rearden metallurgist.†   (source)
  • They did not hire metallurgists to examine samples, nor engineers to visit the site of construction.†   (source)
  • I like to hang around...You know, Mr. Rearden, what I studied to be was a metallurgist.†   (source)
  • No. Are you familiar with the metallurgical nature of Rearden Metal, Dr. Stadler?†   (source)
  • I suppose another reason is that their metallurgical technology isn't as good as ours—same reason that their jet and rocket engines are less efficient.†   (source)
  • For not only was the piece pure in the metallurgical sense, the winking double eagle on the reverse confirmed to the experienced eye that it was one of the five thousand coins minted in commemoration of Catherine the Great's coronation.†   (source)
  • I don't know that I'd be of much use to you, I've got a college diploma in metallurgy, but that's not worth the paper it's printed on.†   (source)
  • "He's unadjusted," without hesitation or explanation; he would also say, while being a graduate in metallurgy, "Iron smelting, I think, seems to require a high temperature."†   (source)
  • If you consider that for thirteen years this Institute has had a department of metallurgical research, which has cost over twenty million dollars and has produced nothing but a new silver polish and a new anti-corrosive preparation, which, I believe, is not so good as the old ones-you can imagine what the public reaction will be if some private individual comes out with a product that revolutionizes the entire science of metallurgy and proves to be sensationally successful!†   (source)
  • It had been followed by a few cocktails at the home of Orren Boyle, with only one unobtrusive gentleman from Argentina sitting silently in a corner, while two executives from Washington and a few friends of unspecified positions had talked about national resources, metallurgy, mineralogy, neighborly duties and the welfare of the globe-and had mentioned that a loan of four billion dollars would be granted within three weeks to the People's State of Argentina and the People's State of Chile.†   (source)
  • Why, no, I don't say that that bridge will collapse," said the chief metallurgist of Associated Steel, on a television program.†   (source)
  • The superintendent, the chief metallurgist, the chief engineer, Rearden's secretary, even the hospital doctor!†   (source)
  • They're experts, though ....the men on that committee...Top experts ....Chief metallurgists for the biggest corporations, with a string of degrees from universities all over the country ....†   (source)
  • Rearden had sent two metallurgists to train Mowen's men, to teach, to show, to explain every step of the process, and had paid the salaries of Mowen's men while they were being trained.†   (source)
  • The interview was devoted to the subject of the grave social responsibility of metallurgists, stressing the fact that metal performed so many crucial tasks where human lives depended on its quality.†   (source)
  • But I believe I have made it clear that the State Science Institute does not approve of the appearance of Rearden Metal on the metallurgical scene at the present time.†   (source)
  • The first bearer of the title of "People's Manager," appointed to run the mills, had been a man of the Orren Boyle faction, a pudgy hanger-on of the metallurgical industry, who had wanted nothing but to follow his employees while going through the motions of leading.†   (source)
  • If you consider that for thirteen years this Institute has had a department of metallurgical research, which has cost over twenty million dollars and has produced nothing but a new silver polish and a new anti-corrosive preparation, which, I believe, is not so good as the old ones-you can imagine what the public reaction will be if some private individual comes out with a product that revolutionizes the entire science of metallurgy and proves to be sensationally successful!†   (source)
  • Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month—the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this—or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the meanwhile, and had received a Rodgers' penknife from his father?†   (source)
  • Phenomenon almost incredible though distinctly seen, what did he then behold but his own metallurgical Louisa, peeping with all her might through a hole in a deal board, and his own mathematical Thomas abasing himself on the ground to catch but a hoof of the graceful equestrian Tyrolean flower-act!†   (source)
  • They had a little conchological cabinet, and a little metallurgical cabinet, and a little mineralogical cabinet; and the specimens were all arranged and labelled, and the bits of stone and ore looked as though they might have been broken from the parent substances by those tremendously hard instruments their own names; and, to paraphrase the idle legend of Peter Piper, who had never found his way into their nursery, If the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped at more than this, what was it for good gracious goodness' sake, that the greedy little Gradgrinds grasped it!†   (source)
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