Using technology tested over and over in battle, the company offers meals like lasagna and flame-broiled turkey in styrofoam containers that heat up when the diner sets off a chemical reaction between a jigger of salt water and a slab of iron and magnesium.
The cyclone drove a small vessel ashore at nearby Banana Island; in addition, a teenage girl was severely impaled by a flying slab of iron in downtown Innisfail, later dying as a result of her injuries.
The wood stoves were also used to heat irons for pressing clothes, actual six- or seven-pound slabs of iron that had to be scrubbed, sanded, and scraped every few minutes to remove the soot.
I guess, but there's something quite masculine about gray-colored slabs of iron that you raise and lower until your arms feel like they want to explode.
Patrons of the 40,000-year-old dwelling would process imported slabs of iron-rich ochre stones and grind them into different shades of yellow, orange, red, brown, and gray.
And so a slab of industrial iron becomes a filigreed room divider that is as intricate as it is commanding, and a hunk of maple found in an abandoned sawmill has a second life as a Baroque cabinet.
The whole car is being assembled with this kind of precision with the aid of a "surface table" - a super-flat, 7m-long slab of cast iron that weighs 10 tonnes.
They were hand-forged in the eighteenth century, slab-cut from strips of iron in the nineteenth, and snipped from rounded wires in the twentieth.
This footing, consisting of a broad slab of concrete reinforced with iron rails, allowed the Montauk, and future taller, heavier buildings, to be built in Chicago's unstable soil.
Some covered more than one coffin, while others took the form of iron lattices fixed beneath large stone slabs, buried with the coffin.
Slabs of rusted corrugated iron wall off the spaces, coils of barbed wire discourage burglars, and curbside ailanthus trees shoot upward until they meet the track overhang, which causes them to curl out over the street.
