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-'A: LIA23057 AdsL. "v -'iv' 9 9 TOR IMMEDIATE KELEASX february 11, 1957 LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATE* 60 East li2nd Street Do t Tork 17, H.T. - .;" Ma 2-2633 . ,y ^ Red lead and irhita lead paint* Tor th protaction of steel highway structure* such a* bridges are featured in the latest lasu* of the Lead Industrie* Association's quarterly, Lead*. A bridge in Hew Tork on the new Sew England Thrtsray is glean as an exaRpla, togetlmr with the lies Tork State specifications under which this bridge was painted. A new use for lead as an ingredient of lew-tecperature porce lain enamels for steel la also illustrated. The lead permits formulation of enamels that fire as low as 1,000 to 1,100 degrees T, thus resulting In sheets of remarkable flatness and lack of distortion st lower cost. Two examples of the use of lead to protect against harmful etccio radiation are given. Or.e is a high lead co-\:,t window through which operators may view radioactive areas at the Oeneral Electric Co.'s Hanford, Washington atomic operations without exposure to the rays. The other is the use of lead containers to transport radioactive Isotopes to British Overseas Airline Corp, plans* for delivery in the wing tips to points all over the world. Extensive lead piping and equipment in the new University of Arkansas Medical School is illustrated. Here the lead is employed tu resist the attack of acids and other corrosives used in the oheaieel laborstorie*. OCRS) : ^ `sy* ysM4^ww,Ujai- is p ^' mjmj *****$*ps**> <~w* 1J ---w rt a.m;f)aa;w.um|i w s u wj^ il p miu p -* - - . ' . y- 1 '--Bgsi^ygpyiii LlA?305 8 'eiharenwi 9 y i i A '..! S Lead plumbing ip ranch typo hones In Shrereport, La., and an offlea building is Tulsa, Okie., shows how construction can b# aooelerated by assembling and installing the pitching ahead of tine and con structing the buildings around it. Copies of "Lead" nay be obtained free frost Lead Industries Association, 60 East U2nd Street, New Tork 17, I, t, (END) 9 Ww 9 `I J I'l.ipff l ' ' w.pil. JI vmiJMM m ^WkJ'J.w f\mm mj w \