Pastimes.

Selected items from the pages of Metal Progress, the monthly magazine of ASM International from 1930 to 1986.

60 years ago ...

April 1946: At the first postwar meeting of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, held in Chicago during the week of Feb. 25, a number of interesting papers were presented.... [The papers] indicate a trend toward a more scientific approach to metallurgical problems. This trend, already noted at the recent National Metal Congress of the ASM in Cleveland, is welcomed. Metallurgists are now beginning to utilize t