Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thermo-Cast, developed in Columbia University laboratories, speeds aircraft production. A plastic that acts like a metal, it may be melted and cast without pressure. Thermo-Cast is tough enough, although one-fifth the weight of steel, to stand up in dies used to shape aluminum sheets. By stamping larger sections, the number of rivets needed is reduced, assembly time is speeded...
Besides these, there are several female stock room clerks and messengers, two or three blueprint and photography assistants, four manual shop helpers, one metal plating and one engraving machine operator, and one salvager, for dismantling experimental models...
Gears, high-accuracy steel parts which must take heavy punishment, are traditionally made by cutting the shape from solid metal. It is slow, painstaking work. Last week Timken-Detroit Axle Co. an nounced they had found a new way to make gears...
Read FORTUNE'S article on Eugene Vidal famed for his "cooking" process for making plywood more durable than metal for airplane parts...
...shortage to end all shortages loomed up last week when New York and Washington undertakers hurriedly conferred over an acute shortage of coffins. Some said the supply would last only six weeks, others thought about four months. The trouble began last summer when WPB banned metal coffins, forced all manufacturers to wood. Since then things have gone from bad to worse-coffin makers cannot get standard woods like walnut, mahogany or redwood, must use soft pine and poplar. New kilns for wood drying are not available ; coffin workers are romping off to war plants (one Pennsylvania outfit has already lost...