Word: ferrous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his eye on the future as well as the present, Blough has vigorously pushed U.S. Steel's expenditures for research, built the world's largest ferrous-metallurgy laboratory at Monroeville, Pa. With the rest of industry, U.S. Steel's scientists are studying the behavior of ores to make the most effective use of raw materials, working on special steels needed in rocketry and nuclear weapons, and turning out such new consumer products as aluminum-coated steel sheets for the automobile industry, vinyl-covered sheets in many colors for TV cabinets, wall panels, doors...
...small, compact car (TIME, June 23), will finally get it on the road late next year. Main feature: an aluminum engine, which will save 150 Ibs., in turn reduce overall engine weight 30% by means of lighter mountings, braces, etc. Up to now every aluminum engine required either a ferrous liner or a chromium coating for cylinder bores; both were expensive to make and troublesome to process. G.M. believes it has solved the problem by finding a wear-resistant aluminum alloy that can be cast in the same fashion as iron...
...scientists dissolved a little ferrous sulphate and carbon dioxide in pure water, enclosed it in a specially designed glass cell, and exposed it to a high-energy helium ion beam from a cyclotron. Analysis showed that a little of the carbon dioxide combined with water to produce formic acid and formaldehyde. Scientists have long known that solutions of formaldehyde sometimes turn into sugar...
...I.U.M.M.S.W. walked out, many members of A.F.L. craft unions who work in the same mines and plants refused to cross picket lines, bringing the total idled to 100,000. Production of strategic lead and zinc was cut along with copper. With 95% of the country's non-ferrous metal mining production shut down, the union appealed to President Truman to seize the industry. Instead, the President asked the workers to get back on the job while the Wage Stabilization Board investigates...
...industrial empire. He drove himself hard from 7:30 a.m. till the Oasis opened at night. He showed an extraordinary mechanical bent. He wore old clothes, worked in the shops, ate with the men. His war-booming Laminaçāo.ao Nacional de Matais grew into the largest non-ferrous rolling mill in South America, employing 20 times as many men and doing 40 times as much business as in his father's day. Soon Baby was making the army's machine guns, buying copper and bauxite mines, opening retail stores to sell the pots & pans his factories...