Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though producers set output records last year, demand is now running well ahead of supply as a result of continuing economic expansion. Aside from copper, the pinch is tightest in the strengthening and rust-resisting metals used to make alloy steels. Detroit is consuming more chrome steel for trim. A surge in orders for machine tools has boosted demand for tungsten steel used in cutting edges. Molybdenum, one of the prime hardening metals, is so scarce that steelmakers frequently are forced to buy on a grey market, where they pay speculators double or triple the going price...
...outsider know what is going on inside, he designed the Goddard Library as a chassis with each functioning space unit attached, much as a hotrod engine proclaims its parts by exposing its chrome-plated carburetors and exhausts. Black metal snorkels funnel air in and out; angled concrete slabs shutter the windows from the sun; chimney-like staircases take the flow of students into the open bookstacks. "Architecture is not a commodity for those who can afford it," Johansen maintains. "It is a vehicle by which an architect explains his society. There must be a new architecture for our experience...
...German Pavilion (since destroyed) in Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition, a jewel-case structure employing the open planning first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright that combined the richness of bronze, chrome, steel and glass with free-standing walls...
First he prohibited the import of Rhodesian chrome. Then came a ban on cash-and-carry trade, which supplemented an earlier crackdown on credit deals. Finally, having presumably run out of trade barriers, Wilson decided to test his thesis that most of the Rhodesian civil service is loyal to the Crown, and will prove it if given the chance...
...head off precipitate action by Africa's angry extremists. "We believe the policy we are following," Wilson said, "is right, appropriate, and will be effective." He could point to the fact that British sanctions have already cut Rhodesia's main exports 90% -including sugar, tobacco, copper, chrome, steel and meat. American importers are boycotting Rhodesian asbestos and lithium; Japan banned Rhodesian iron imports starting April 1. Even with strict gasoline rationing (one gallon a week for small cars, two gallons for large cars), the country has only an eight-to twelve-week supply left, and a few patriotic...