Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich country could not send more aid, Why it had to wait for production lines to start moving. Members of the Russian mission, remembering how long and how thoroughly their own country had been stripped down for war, blinked at U.S. shop windows still full of metal automobile gadgets...
With a blinding flash and a sickening crash Trip 4 plowed into the rolling hillside, hard on the bank of an erosion gully. It bounced across the gully and up the hill like a tortured metal monster, strewing splintered wreckage, broken bodies, burst baggage and clothing more than 300 feet. Flames sprouted, spurted high, clearly visible in Salt Lake City's darkened business section, a few miles south...
From A for Access-Panels to W for Work-Benches, the U.S. was stripped clean of its iron & steel. WPB issued its most sweeping curtailment order yet, banning use of the metal after August for practically every civilian use under the sun -more than 400 items...
...about 2,000,000 tons of tin cans discarded annually in the U.S., of which an estimated 700,000 tons might be collected, shipped and processed economically. Today, the toughest problem facing WPB planners is getting greater detinning plant capacity. Of the seven large plants now in operation, Metal & Thermit Corp. (East Chicago, Ind.; South San Francisco; Carteret, N.J.) and Vulcan Detinning Co. (Neville Island, Pa.; Sewaren, N.J.) do about 85% of the business. New plants are being built by the Defense Plant Corporation at Houston, Dallas, Kansas City...
...Carboloy's was cemented tungsten carbide, an exceedingly hard metal composition important for cutting tools. Remington Arms' was tetracene, an ammunition primer, which, the Justice Department contended, the ever-logical Germans licensed Remington to sell to the British "for shooting quail and pheasants but not for shooting Germans...