Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period, Russian exports could undoubtedly expand. Best guess in Washington for Russian exports to all countries in the first five postwar years: half a billion yearly. The U.S., which never took 5% of Russian exports, might in future get as much as 40%, or $200 million worth of coal, metal, oil, wood products (particularly pulp), etc. But this is a highly iffy estimate that includes the if of lower U.S. tariffs...
...biggest surprise in the study was the apparent plentifulness of Japanese strategic metal supplies. The Japanese are wasteful and often clumsy in workmanship (e.g., apparently ignorant of the principles of stresses in metals, they weaken airplane connecting rods by making deep stencils of serial numbers in them). But the Japs have not had to be careful. They have enough copper to make their cartridge cases of brass, have been lavish in the use of nickel, zinc, manganese, aluminum and other precious alloys...
...metallurgist, a piece of metal often bears its own trademark. Even after it is melted down and mixed, he can tell, by close study of alloys and traces of other elements present, just where the metal came from. The metallurgists' analysis of Jap materials identified one source of the abundance: "a considerable part" of the metal now killing U.S. fighting men came from the scrap which the U.S. sold to Japan before...
...German colleagues insert it without dangerously cutting down blood supply and without introducing infection. Surgeons at the hospital cautiously say they "have no opinion one way or another about this case." But they add that they are not quite satisfied with the way the bone is mending around the metal crutch, possibly because of impaired circulation...
...sudden flood of Army orders also washed all the complacency out of other metal markets. Tin, zinc and lead were all back on the critical-shortage list (along with lesser items like antimony, tungsten and cadmium). Metal men who had talked of plans to revive a little bit of production for civilian uses tossed many plans for the 4,200 spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even...