Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flies would be a major menace: swatters could not be made of metal, nor of rubber either. Tire-rationed motorists who had begun to think of buying bicycles woke up one morning to find that bicycles were rationed...
...blast furnace, open hearth and blooming, bar and strip mill departments; Weirton Steel and Republic Steel likewise turned in new records. Meanwhile other industries face complete shutdowns. All refrigerator and vacuum cleaner output will stop April 30, all small electrical appliances on May 31, all lawn mowers and toys (metal and plastic) on June...
...general is Matthew Fox, balding (at 31), egg-shaped vice president of Universal Pictures who went to Washington a month ago to trouble-shoot for Bob Nathan's WPB Planning Board (TIME, March 2). The committees in 46 States who are collecting old rubber, paper, rags, metal-above all, iron and steel-are doing earnest work, but Matt Fox concluded that more was needed...
...found that the two big untapped sources of metal scrap are 1) auto grave yards, 2) the nation's 6,500,000 farms, where an estimated one to two and a half million-ton hoard of old machinery lies mouldering. To round up the farm scrap, he decided that paid collectors were necessary. The first thousand collectors announced by Rosenwald last week: WPA workers, with WPA trucks, to go from farm to farm collecting scrap (they will ask for it as a gift, pay for it if need be). It will be auctioned to commercial dealers, who must promise...
...Blue publicity department, after many weeks of sore perplexity, devised felt-lined metal jackets bearing the legend BLUE to slip over NBC microphones when photographers are in the offing. New mikes, made of war-precious metals...