Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep trouble. Some 30,000 small manufacturing plants, employing 850,000 workers, faced the possibility of closing at the end of the month unless they could get more brass and copper mill products. A shortage of copper had already curtailed construction in Minneapolis, was threatening to pinch thousands of metal fabricators. The shortage, already acute, was made even tighter by last month's devastating floods in the Northeast, normally a heavy production center...
...production; each new car takes an average 24 Ibs., or a total of 10% of all the copper used in the nation. U.S. builders are putting more copper than prewar into home construction, and the average $20,000 copper-wired, copper-piped house uses about $400 worth of the metal...
...wiring oxidizes on contact with moisture and turns into a nonconductor. Experimental aluminum automobile radiators have become crusted by the alkaline water found in most of the U.S. But last week, as the supply of copper grew increasingly short, there was renewed talk of a turn toward aluminum. Reynolds Metals told stockholders that big electrical companies were inquiring about aluminum for electrical wire and that automobile manufacturers were still considering the light metal to replace copper in radiators. Reported an Alcoa official: "We're getting inquiries from a lot of people we've never heard from before...
...that speed, the sled's metal wind screen will be blown clear, and air blast will wallop Stapp with the same destructive force that would hit a pilot bailing out at 40,000 ft. and 2,000 m.p.h...
Bumpers, he discovered, are good only for scratching other cars, seats rip out too easily under impact, and the metal in the front half of cars compresses too easily. Dashboards, he feels, should be moved forward and "delethalized" with padding. Doors should be fitted with safety locks so they will not fly open in crashes. Rear-window shelves should be removed; objects on them have a horrible habit of spewing into passengers' heads during crashes. Power brakes, he suggests, should be operated by hand; the eye-hand reaction is quicker than any foot movement. And safety belts, he thinks...