Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Union's Long Island laboratory, a new kind of lamp was shining last week. It might not be the biggest, the brightest or the most economical, but designers and users of optical instruments were excited about it. Reason: its light came from a speck of molten metal only three one-thousandths of an inch in diameter...
Western Union calls its lamp a "concentrated arc." Inside a small glass bulb filled with argon gas are two electrodes. On one is a tiny speck of zirconium oxide. When the current flows, this turns to molten zirconium metal, glows ten times as brightly for its area as the brightest tungsten filament...
...prospectors. This is what they said: not far from their hunting & fishing grounds at Observatory Inlet, 500 miles north of Vancouver, was a "mountain of gold." Two prospectors, led there by Indians, found only "fool's gold" (iron Pyrites) which gives a surface appearance of precious metal. Yet there was indeed a fortune in the district. It took some 18 years of exploration and drilling-and investment of more than $3,600,000-to find it. Subsequently it produced 25 million tons of copper, gold and silver...
...manufacture zippers. I cannot get enough tape. I cannot get enough metal. I cannot get enough labor. I cannot get enough of anything except customers. If I could get enough material, and enough labor, and my competitors could too, very soon between us we would make so many zippers . . . that there would be no possibility of increased prices and no danger of inflation, at least so far as zippers are concerned...
...many a reconverting industry that needs bearings, metal containers, etc., tin is literally worth its weight in gold. As far back as last fall the War Production Board solemnly warned that tin was so scarce that the U.S. might run out completely in 1946. The hope had been that when Far Eastern tin sources, which produced 92% of prewar U.S. tin, were surveyed, enough hidden stockpiles would be found to end the shortage...