Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise men of WPB had good tidings. Since last April, when a limitation was placed on the use of steel in infant vehicles, most babies have had to bump along in rickety wooden carriages, strollers, walkers and pushcarts. Last week, lifting this particular restriction, WPB hoped to allot enough metal to permit the manufacture of some 700,000 prewar model carriages this year. (Anticipated births...
...this boon to babies did not mean that their parents would shortly be wallowing in bobby pins, pot scourers and can openers. WPB flatly refused to relax metal restrictions on 646 other civilian items, despite the ample steel supply. A few weeks ago WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements was talking hopefully of supplying pent-up demands for many a much-missed article of everyday life. It still plans soon to increase the manufacture of alarm clocks, let a score of other minor items dribble out. But for the most part, OCR has now decided to keep...
...acidified water a piece of soft iron sends up bubbles of hydrogen (the metal reacts with the dilute acid and hydrogen is given off). But when the submerged bar was magnetized, Professor Ehrenhaft found oxygen as well as hydrogen bubbles. The only place the oxygen could come from was the water. It seemed that the water decomposed under the influence of the magnet just as water does when an electric current runs through an electrolytic solution. Professor Ehrenhaft argued from this that as no electric current was involved in the experiment, a magnetic current must have done the trick...
...fountain was the speaker's son, like him small, wiry, sharp-eyed and swathed in a black cape with a ragged fur collar. The son reached into a pocket and brought out the dog tags-thin oval bits of metal in leather cases. The five men were proud of the trophies. Their story tumbled out in pidgin Eng lish learned 15 years ago when they worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...body armor developed for the Eighth Air Force (TIME, June 14) a new, lightweight protective helmet has been added. Like the flak suit, it is the invention of the Eighth's smart air surgeon, Brigadier General Malcolm Grow, for protection against low-velocity missiles: flak, spent bullets, metal torn loose by enemy gunnery...