Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-known "wonder metals, aluminum and magnesium are now commonplace, although a few decades ago they were prohibitively high priced. Aluminum and its alloys are still the basic materials of all aircraft. But magnesium, which is one-third lighter, is encroaching on aluminum's domain (Douglas's 1,238-m.p.h. Skyrocket has a magnesium-sheet fuselage). In the field of atomic power the most important metal, next to uranium, is zirconium. Reason: it is one of the few metals yet found which will not absorb atomic neutrons. But it is a frightening metal to process; in powder form...
...million square miles of land, one-fourth lies under the scepter of Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. In this great domain, nine times vaster than Rome's, live 603 million people...
...opportunity to change their minds at the last moment. That means guided missiles "vectored" toward the targets by electronic signals, and equipped with homing devices that sense the target ahead and turn the projectile toward it in a collision course at several times the speed of sound. The domain of these mechanical falcons is the high, thin air above the sweep of the Skysweeper...
...necessary for permission to play a song on the air; a world where cut-ins (giving a performer a share of a song's profits), hot stoves (open bribes) and other forms of payola were standing operating procedure; a world of concern with P.D. (public domain, the graveyard, or seventh heaven, where tunes land when their copyrights run out); of romance (a verb meaning to shower disk jockeys and musicians with attentions in return for performances...
...State of the Union speech last Monday, President Eiscohower, while vowing early admission for Hawaii, failed to mention Alaska even in connection with an "enabling act." Hawaii, of course, is Republican, while Alaska has always been a Democratic domain. But pairing states for admission has been a practice since the Missomi Compromise. Anyway you cut admission of Hawaii without consideration for Alaska, it's still political baloney...