Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered 4,000 manufacturers of metal beds, bed springs and mattresses to cut their use of iron and steel 15 to 60% (depending upon the product and the size of the manufacturer...
This also might be a workable plan for the uniformed station-wagon monkeys now wasting money, wool, metal (uniforms, pins), rubber and fuel...
...Axis offensive was getting under way, Malta on the western flank and Cyprus on the east were shields to ward off the first blows. Malta's metal was well tested. So far in World War II, Malta has had nearly 2,000 air raids and is still unconquered. Attacks last week sometimes lasted from dawn to dark, but the raid-toughened Maltese, using the caverns which honeycomb the island as air-raid shelters, carried on much as usual. Even the goats were so learned in raids that they flounced into ditches when the sirens wailed...
After World War I, Artillerist Kartveli went to France, studied aeronautics, supported himself for a year by a trapeze act in a circus. Meanwhile he learned to fly. His passion was the all-metal airplane. He designed one in 1927-a failure. But by last fall he was a recognized designer at Republic, the head of a department of 200 engineers (who call him Mister...
Today's familiar metal and rubber stethoscope (Greek for chest examiner) is quite different from Laënnec's-a hollow bell or a cap with a hard rubber diaphragm to be placed on the chest or back and tubes to transmit sound to the earpieces. And its use is anything but simple. Since Laënnec hundreds of books have been written about the snaps, crackles, hums, gurgles, murmurs, booms, bubblings, gratings and rustlings which Laënnec first heard and doctors still listen...