Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every floor had its own tinfoil collection depot-we've had our own rubber and scrap metal reclamation day-almost a hundred of us have graduated from the First Aid classes we held five nights a week in our reception room-and the Treasury Department gave us its Certificate of Merit for the number of employees who signed up to buy bonds regularly in our own War Bond Drive...
...Coins ranging from a hundred reis (smallest unit recently made, worth half a U.S. cent) to five milreis (25?) come in 25 different sizes. At times some have been worth more as metal than as money; always they have caused innumerable difficulties with such things as pay telephones, slot machines...
...fast, agile, twin Rolls-Royce Mosquito bomber has a wingspread of 54 ft. (comparable to the U.S. P-38 fighter). It carries four 20-mm. cannon and four machine guns, is used largely for daylight raids. The plane's wooden fuselage, designed to conserve Britain's metal supply, has under some circumstances proved less vulnerable to gunfire than light metal...
Hard on the heels of the War Labor Board's decision to pay copper miners $1 per day higher wages (TIME, Oct. 26), OPA and WPB last week moved to reconsider the return which copper companies can expect to get for their metal in view of higher labor costs...
Danger now is that local scrap collec tions may bog down because scrap dealers are receiving more metal than they can handle. When scrap piles in community dumping grounds do not move quickly, people who searched from attic to cellar for contributions may get disgusted with the whole drive. Actually dealers are ship ping scrap to the mills as quickly as pos sible and at a satisfactory rate. But deal ers are handicapped because the publicly collected scrap requires careful sorting (about 30% of the take thus far has been metal not suited for steelmaking - non-ferrous metals, galvanized zinc...