Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technological Revolution. Unlike soldering, welding does not consist merely of sticking two objects together with metal glue. Instead it fuses them into one piece, almost as if they were recast. The village blacksmith did a crude form of welding when he heated two iron rods to the melting point and hammered them together till they fused, but modern welding is a much more efficient operation...
...gave at least 200 hours of hard running between layups for repairs. The rubber treads, characteristic of U.S. tanks, lasted between 2,000 and 2,500 miles in desert tests, against a maximum of 800 for the best track Europe produces. Some reporters wrote that the British thought all-metal treads were better than rubber. The Ordnance Department was ready to bet that the British would soon change their minds...
After functioning for a year and a half, the club now has five members and owns two gliders. Of these, one is a high-performance sailplane of English design and the other is an all-metal utility glider, or trainer...
...Hitler himself could have planned. But unlike Hitler's aggressions it was made with the full consent of the other parties concerned: Brazil, the British, The Netherlands Government. The White House is sued a brief statement: The bauxite mines in Surinam furnish about 60% of the metal vital to U.S. aluminum manufacture, and aluminum is vital to all nations fighting the Axis. To protect the safety of this bauxite source, the U.S., by agreement with interested nations, and after advising all other Latin American nations, will put in a small force to protect the source of bauxite, will withdraw...
...mostly German, enjoyed a monopoly in symphonic music. U.S. publishers sold German scores for a commission, maintained other profitable contacts with the Germans, never thought it wise to compete with them. But today imports have ceased, and German publishers' plates have had to be melted down for war metal...