Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patiño's tin miners in Bolivia, whose cause Galarza had championed (TIME, Dec. 28), were back at work,* producing needed metal for the Allied war machine. Their demands for improvement of their substandard living conditions were as yet unanswered, though a special U.S. commission was preparing to investigate the dispute. By appointing such a commission, the U.S. Government had acknowledged a definite interest in the controversy, had shouldered a certain responsibility for its solution...
...durable goods, sales of radios, pianos, clocks and metal jewelry will end when the existing small inventories are exhausted. Sales of household furniture and furnishings, glassware and utensils will drop by 25% for lack of goods. Big increases are forecast for sales of men's & women's work clothes...
...shadows fall on this decision: 1) the name may not stand, since the ending turn implies a metal, and the new element, like its relatives chlorine and iodine, is decidedly nonmetallic; 2) discovery of the new element has been previously claimed elsewhere...
Sole reason, said Sun executives, was economy. The Sun had lost heavily in its first year, stands to lose more in 1943 because of expected advertising losses and type-metal and paper shortages...
...crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...