Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night the Triangle raced at 70 miles an hour. Brief, bright showers of sparks gritted from desperately locked brakes. Then the Triangle hit the wreckage. Both its locomotives and three of its cars tumbled off the rails. A geyser of live steam shot up. Glass crashed, metal shrieked and groaned on metal. In the stillness which followed, the train's 270 passengers, 150 of them young, newly drafted soldiers, wailed and called; many were crushed between the crashing cars. Nineteen died, 50 were injured...
...said Miss Burns, she had gone to work in Westinghouse's Bloomfield (N.J.) plant, and had been assigned to a laboratory job. Almost four years later, she learned she had been working on one of the minor processes in the development of the atomic bomb. The hot sheet metal she had been cutting into squares, she said, contained radioactive uranium...
...accomplished marvels. It had an exact chronology, a "more accurate knowledge of astronomy" than that of Egypt under the Ptolemies, an arithmetical system involving the concept of zero, a complex hieroglyphic writing (much of which is still undeciphered), highly accomplished arts & crafts. Yet the Maya were aboriginal people-without metal tools of any kind, without beasts of burden, without even a wheel...
...18th Century, but there has been no violent friction since, except for a brief outbreak in 1832. The tribesmen live mainly in the hills of far southwestern China. Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes. Yi and Miao women are heavily bejeweled with amber and jade, worked in silver. Most of them smoke long, thin pipes. Yi and Miao characters are written in a horizontal line...
...first confused winter of defeat. The work of rebuilding Japan from its rubble had barely begun. Reconstruction, hampered by lack of materials and tools, by strikes, and by requirements of the occupation force, stood at only 13%; industry at 30%. The occupation army required 90% of the cement and metal piping, much of the wiring, nearly all the tin and slate roofing. Allied dependents had taken over 6,000 of the best Western-style houses. But Japanese still respected the authority of their conquerors. Most blamed their pitiable condition on their own Government; few save the Communists held General MacArthur...