Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After his exchange, U.S. Army doctors X-rayed the soldier's leg. They were amazed at what they saw: a half-inch metal rod of some kind had been rammed down the thighbone through the marrow for three-quarters of the bone's length, thus supplying a permanent, internal splint...
...long, metal-bound walnut chest named for the chest which once reposed in Westminster Abbey's Chapel of the Pyx, now rests in England's Mint, where newly minted British coins are deposited for Britain's annual coinage-testing: the Trial...
...Belgium, there is a group of men & women who wear a small metal brooch showing a railroad engine. They were passengers on the ghost train of Saint-Gilles. For security reasons, their story was withheld until last week...
...Merchant shipbuilding, with its notoriously high labor turnover, will always be in a critical state while labor is free to go where it pleases. High priority programs on the Army list which are also feeling the labor pinch are small-arms ammunition, tanks, tires, cotton duck, mines, smelters, basic metal fabrications-all industries involving hard and dirty work, mostly at low pay and therefore unpopular with U.S. workers...
Mayor LaGuardia, echoing this gloomy prediction, wondered why youths should now be learning such trades as plumbing, drafting, electricity, and sheet-metal work in the city's Building Trades High School when "tens of thousands" of servicemen are being trained in them. "Why train more people for the next five years," he asked, " . . . if they can't find employment...