Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since he left Ohio's Wilberforce University to become an entertainer in the speakeasies of Kansas City, massive, coal-black Jimmy Rushing has been singing blues and swinging his fat. His hot-metal tenor, edgy enough to cut a brass team, and his unexpectedly light footwork have brought him fame among the old-style gin-garden chanteurs...
...with two. In the Bell Syndicate's strip, "Miss Fury" the General is frustrated by Brazilian guerrillas in his campaign to open the way for an Axis invasion. In his latest battle the Brazilians destroyed his soldiers' tanks, guns, helmets and even their belt buckles with metal-dissolving pellets, leaving the bewildered Germans unarmed and helpless under a hail of arrows...
...rationing ("Not me! Not so a lot of profiteering meat packers can make themselves some more millions"), travel restrictions ("I'm goin' to travel to Atlantic City in protest"), gas rationing ("If I don't get the gas, somebody else will"), and other subjects from scrap metal to war bonds...
...Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. of New York City is producing an airplane propeller with wood blades (saving metal) and variable pitch (saving gasoline). Fully automatic, it needs neither auxiliary power nor manual setting, adjusts itself for most efficient flying at all speeds and altitudes...
...Crowley pointed out, his patent grabs mean that "some of the finest research achievements of modern science" will be available to any interested U.S. manufacturer. His plums include: Krupp patents on heavy machinery, diesel engines, locomotives and metal alloys; I. G. Farbenindustrie's work on oil and coal products, aluminum and magnesium fabricating, etc.; Focke-Wulf and Dornier aircraft improvements. But for the long pull, the significant part of Leo Crowley's letter to the President was the outline he made of his patent policy. It was a patent reformer's dream...