Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tank park onto the offense. They counterattacked. On that first day a violent tank battle swirled on the desert. Besides his tanks General Rommel turned his anti-aircraft batteries against the advancing British tanks. The battle seemed to go geographically in favor of the British, who nevertheless suffered terrible metal losses...
Standard equipment for any cliff-hanging show includes metal shells to which actors repair when they are supposed to be below earth or water's surface, echo chambers, noise-making devices ranging from kettledrums to sheets of steel. Latitude Zero has a few new ones. When man-eating trees run amok in the script, the soundmen drag a real tree into the studio, grapple with it to give the proper effect. If the script calls for voices in a tunnel, the cast joins the soundmen in building one of chairs, tables, blankets, etc. In order to make a character...
...from $4,000,000 to $18,000,000, nearly doubled the faculty and student body. They were proud of his services to the nation: he was in charge of U.S. industrial relations under Secretary of War Newton D. Baker in World War I; in World War II he runs metal and mineral priorities for OPM. They were prouder still that he had helped shape a whole generation of U.S. undergraduates...
...when the collection ended this week it would have 120,000 lb. of scrap-better than 6 lb. from each of Dane County's families. In Richmond, scrap aluminum (including four outgrown artificial legs from one donor) piled up just as fast. When the collections are over the metal will be rolled flat, baled, sold at 10½? a lb. Proceeds will go to the regional defense councils. The scrap, not usable for aircraft manufacture (which now takes 50% of U.S. production), will be used for other aluminum jobs, release its equivalent for airplane building...
...Machine parts made of powdered metals. Says Electrochemist Colin Garfield Fink of Columbia University: "The basic idea is simple. Fill any mold with a metal powder. Apply pressure, and increase the temperature to a certain point. ... A hard metal object is promptly produced." Advantages: speed, economy and the opportunity to make parts of a single object out of different metals, molded together...