Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manning the barricades. The Neva's left bank, scene of bloodshed in two Russian revolutions, was changed to a training ground, where men and boys hurriedly boned up on grenade-throwing and bayonet-thrusting. On the Neva's right bank, across from the Winter Palace, shipyard and metal workers, some of whom had stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, staged a mock battle. Every street got its barrier. In the factories men worked with guns beside them...
...scrap is now abnormally scarce. Last week OPM steelmen particularly recommended expansion of Bessemer steel capacity, because the otherwise less economical Bessemer process requires very little scrap. Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd announced a program to collect 232,000 tons of abandoned streetcar rails. But Cleveland's Daily Metal Trades reported that steel mills are still using more scrap than they can replace, that reserves will be gone in eight weeks. Before OPM officials can attend the firing ceremonies of any new steel plant, they will probably see some others close...
...Metal shortages have already cut into an odd assortment of consumers' goods: zippers, outboard motors, dollar watches, bicycles, compacts. Home builders now have trouble getting pumps, electric motors, bathtubs, copper tubing, brass fittings, light fixtures. A good share of the extra dollars that U.S. consumers have to spend will go into bigger purchases of food (of which the U.S. has enough, ex cept for temporary shortages like toma toes and salmon, bought up by the Army and the British). More will go for "soft" consumers' goods like clothes (the U.S. has a 9,000,000-bale cotton surplus...
Jeremiahs had predicted it. Last week they turned out to be right. OPM officially admitted that almost half the world's steel capacity was not enough for the U.S. It admitted an 1,000,000-ton shortage for the current year. Accordingly the No.1 defense metal was slapped under 100% mandatory priorities...
...Mill describes the two years Masefield spent in Yonkers, N.Y., in the late '90s, working for the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills. He worked first at straightening the metal tubes which held the yarns. Later, as "mistake finder," he learned the 30 processes which went into carpetmaking, and all the 1,500 colors, by tint and number. Masefield gives a real sense of the beautifully counterpointed complexities of mill work: "No man can be unmoved by the great concerted energy of many men and women." More than the work, he liked the food, the money and the leisure it gave...