Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When American troops were occupying Germany after the surrender they were somewhat amazed at their discovery almost everywhere they looked of small glittering objects -- narrow strips of bright metal foil which lays on the fields, in the roads, on the rooftops, and hung from the trees like the familiar tinsel on Christmas trees...
...greatness of this country," Payne observes, "is terrifying. [China is a nation] swiftly changing and terribly virile . . . where the metal is molten and the people are searching for new gods, or the old gods transformed into a more virile strength. . . ." Through the diary he kept during the bleakest years (1941-44) of China's war, the author comes back again & again to this thought - sometimes in prose, sometimes in verse...
...going to crusade. I'm going to crusade to see that men who want to work can get it without paying tribute to any one." Andy's plants were already shut - by a strike. His labor troubles with 33 of A.F. of L.'s Metal Workers' Unions were twelve months old. They were complicated by jurisdictional trouble with C.I.O.'s Marine and Shipbuilding Workers' Union. Only a few hours before his shattering announcement, Andy Higgins had said he would sign a contract with whichever union won an NLRB election. (Insiders said C.I.O. would have...
...Stole just about everything portable, including fire-hose nozzles. ¶Hacked off metal and plastic name plates identifying equipment. ¶Tried to pry up the metal plaque on the veranda deck marking the spot where the Japs' surrender was signed. ¶Scribbled "compositions" and scratched their initials on newly painted bulkheads. ¶Scarred the hard enamel of the 16-in. guns so badly that the muzzles had to be raised out of reach. ¶Set off the general alarm, which sent the cursing crew dashing to battle stations...
...Swift. The Swift, one of the first all-metal light planes to be made on an assembly line, rolled out of the Globe Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Fort Worth fort night ago. A sleek, shiny, two-place monoplane, the Swift is a cut above most small planes in speed (140 m.p.h.), as well as price ($3,495 up to $3,995). But Globe is not worried about its high-priced product. It announced that it already has a backlog of $11,000,000 in firm orders. Estimated production next year: 4,000 planes...