Word: ferrous
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...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...
...nine months of negotiating, Britain and Yugoslavia last week signed a five-year trade agreement. It called for a ?110 million ($308,100,000) volume of trade each way. Yugoslavia will get an ?8,000,000 loan, payable in five years. The Yugoslavs will exchange timber, corn and non-ferrous metals for British machinery, wool, chemicals and rubber products. At the same time, the two governments agreed to a settlement of ?4,500,000 for British property nationalized by Yugoslavia. Only four days before, the Yugoslav government had concluded a $126 million one-year trade agreement with Western Germany...
...prime businessman, with a finger in all the pies. Usually brushed off in the U.S. as "foreign trade chief," he was also, until last week, supervisor of all Soviet domestic commerce, director of consumer-goods production, director of the production of food, supervisor of the ministries of ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy. And, in addition, he has been one of the few people with whom Stalin liked to pass his hours of relaxation...