Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the two ships, Quinault Victory and E. A. Bryan, exploded within five seconds of each other, filling the sky with an enormous, blinding incandescence. A howling gale blew and died away as air roared back into the vast vacuum. Then great chunks of twisted metal from the ships and jagged fragments of exploded shells began falling. The people of Port Chicago, asleep seconds before, began calling out in the darkness amid the falling walls of their wrecked town...
...free of the earth's gravity has been calculated as seven miles per second. The best rocket fuel yet tried (liquid oxygen and gasoline or alcohol) has a theoretical propulsive limit of two miles per second, and no actual rocket has approached that limit. Using the best present metal alloys and fuel, says Ley, a rocket ship designed for a round trip to the moon would have to be one-third the height of the Empire State Building-apparently a practical impossibility. But war research has improved fuels and alloys, produced new high-flying antiaircraft rockets. Ley, anticipating further...
Civilian Goods. U.S. housewives may get cocktail shakers before they get vacuum cleaners. Reason: articles which need few parts can be made quickest, as soon as metal is available. First goods to be made from surplus metals will be teakettles, washtubs, tableware, pots & pans, hairpins, safety pins, etc. Second in line are things made in quantity now, but largely absorbed by the Army. Sample: radio equipment. The radio industry has expanded about twelve times; even an 8% cutback would take care of prewar civilian demands. But-Army & Navy demands for radio-radar equipment are going...
...that the fluid in their batteries boiled while charging. Their equipment was frequently choked by clouds of coral dust from the roads. But they managed to stay with the foot soldiers, pausing to explain the action, letting the microphone gather the battle noises: wounded groaning, Jap bullets pinging against metal, the sharp splat of mortar shells exploding, the high hum of planes, artillery in the background, and the cries of men giving battle directions...
...Metal and Men. Oil and metals were running short in Germany. The Nazi Air Force and Army were reported squabbling for the available supply, even in such critical areas as the surging Normandy front. Chromium and manganese were desperately short, the nickel from tottering Finland might soon be lost to the Reich's thoroughly battered industrial machine...