Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royalty. In front, with mincing step, walked Party Chairman Ralph Assheton. Behind came a retinue of Cabinet Ministers. The 2,000 delegates waved agenda sheets in well-bred excitement, burst into a politely modulated For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Rosy-cheeked and beaming, in tail coat and striped trousers, "Winnie" waved back. Then he launched into his speech...
...regular press conference (see U.S. AT WAR), the Prime Minister sat just behind and to the right of the President. As always, he was impeccably and stiffly dressed-dark blue suit, Hooverish collar, black-ribboned pince-nez, dark tie-in contrast with the President's light green tweed coat, polka...
...help publicize a new kind of super mink fur (marketed by the Quebec Fur Breeders Cooperative Association), Eleanor Roosevelt went to Manhattan last week and accepted an $8,000 mink coat. Two days later, at her regular White House press conference, the newshens were waiting...
...months. But the new paint, developed by the Navy's Bureau of Ships, keeps a ship's bottom whistle-clean for two to five years. A brown, syrupy compound of cuprous oxide and synthetic resins, it is sprayed on hot (300°F.), forms a coat ten times as thick as ordinary paint...
...arms-making inside the Axis countries. The Germans started the war with meager supplies of copper, nickel, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium, manganese-all considered vital for war. They showed great skill and ingenuity in finding workable substitutes. As early as 1934 they began to make shell cases of copper-coated steel instead of brass (which uses more copper). As war ate up their copper stocks, they shifted to electrolytic copper plating (a thinner coat), finally to a rust-retarding lacquer coating containing no copper...