Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a man is Bud Goodman, who quit the University of Illinois when his father died, got a job as a metal finisher, moved up so fast that now, at 37, he is manager of the Fisher Body plant at Flint. Thickset, horny-handed Bud Goodman is converting the plant 100% to tanks. He welds them by a new process that saves four-fifths of the machining time, bends them into shape on 480-ton presses, maneuvers them on 30-ton jigs like ducks on a spit. As the new assembly lines spring to life, Bud Goodman trots around them...
...this current Rabinowitch arranged a simple device. "If now two metal electrodes are immersed in such a solution," he explained last week, "and if the liquid around one electrode is illuminated and the other is kept dark, the system becomes a galvanic cell in which chemical energy, formed by the conversion of light, is itself immediately converted into electrical energy." Galvanic cells and batteries-usually making current from the slow dissolving of zinc in sulfuric acid-are not uncommon, but Rabinowitch's is unique in that it will never wear...
...Massachusetts State Legislature approved legislation dealing with vehicle registration in their last session, but a shortage of metal necessary for the numerous registration tags has delayed the signing until the present time...
Because of the metal situation, a fee of 15 cents will be charged for each license. Under the statute, owners will have to apply annually for new plates in order to receive renewals of their licenses...
Even before Pearl Harbor, glitter was fast vanishing from 10?-store counters as stocks of imitation pearls, rhinestones and cut glass, imported mainly from Czecho-Slovakia, ran low. Today the only practicable metal the $50,000,000 costume jewelry industry can get is costly sterling silver. Even sterling is in danger: it contains 7.5% copper...