Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light metal magnesium, virtually ignored in the U.S. before the war, is revolutionizing U.S. metallurgy. Thanks to chemists, it is now being produced cheaply and plentifully, playing a big role in the war (e.g., in a four-motored bomber it saves enough in engine weight alone, as compared with aluminum, to increase the bombload-by 360 lb.). Among its many postwar possibilities, Haynes sees a magnesium grand piano that one husky man can lift by himself...
...magnetic field. This energy is converted into tiny electrical impulses, then amplified to turn a hand on a dial, showing the navigator the plane's direction. Inside this dial are mechanisms that automatically correct errors resulting from magnetic interference and variations. There is less interference from ship metal or electrical apparatus than in the magnetic compass, because the pickup coils need not be in the navigator's cabin, can be installed where they will not be affected by the ship's bomb load or armor...
...Tito is Josip Broz, or Brozovich, 53, Croatian ex-metal worker, Communist-trained leader of the People's Liberation Army, rival organization to General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks. Berlin has offered 100,000 gold marks for either man's head...
...boats' armament included new torpedoes, evidently derived from magnetic and sonic mines with which the British long since learned how to cope. Attracted toward a ship's stern by the metal mass, the torpedoes exploded automatically when they came within the radius of the propeller vibrations. Once the propellers were crippled or destroyed, the ship was then an easy mark for conventional torpedoes...
...metal, silver started as a substitute for tin, copper and other critical metals, was soon found superior to them in many ways. Silver has many ideal properties: it resists corrosion better than any other metal, is little affected by atmospheric conditions, is extremely malleable, and is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. Some of its uses...