Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remain calm, even when planes roar overhead. Veterinarians say they can tell that a mule is in pain only by the expression in his eyes or by a quivering muscle. Only the "shellshocked" animals make any noise. A wounded animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along on a straw substitute. About 60% of the patients go back into action...
...Stockholm last week came word of Nazi jitters in Norway. Four major power projects-at Vemark in the Rjukan Valley, Saude near Stavanger, Tysse east of Bergen and in the Glomfjord-each with nonferrous metal-producing facilities, have been abandoned by Nazi say-so. The reports spoke of four more such projects dropped. Estimated value: 300 to 500 million crowns ($60,000,000 to $100,000,000), furnished by Norwegian banks at the mouths of Nazi Mausers...
Disaster arrived in an 8,000-ton, Canadian-built Liberty ship. Swarms of dockers began unloading her cargo of scrap metal, timber, 708 bales of cotton, $4,293,500 in gold bullion, 300 tons of high explosive (TNT, amatol) in little black canisters. Fire interrupted their work...
...metal foot protector that fits over the shoe and prevents toes from being smashed by falling objects or careless steppers...
Unfinished Work. Her short stories, like her experimental novels, were an other matter. They were like fragments of meteorites over which geologists might puzzle: containing traces of unquestionably valuable metal, with delicate markings and crystal patterns of great beauty and rarity, but of as little appreciable utility as most meteorites. Virginia Woolf wrote short stories all her life, sketching them out in very rough form and putting them away in a drawer to mellow. Or she wrote them to rest her mind while she was writing her novels. Published last week was a posthumous collection of 18, selected...