Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scrap rubber and metal are particularly needed by industry. Out of one piano can be made three or four machine guns. Andirons, unusable inner tubes, old shoes, and galoshes are of extreme value. Students are also urged to give up their softsponge rubber cushions because of the large amount of firsthand rubber contained in them. Sponge rubber is considered A-1 materiel...
...left out one item (except by implication) in your list of articles, which the Navy still insists shall be made from virgin metal [TIME, Aug. 3]. I refer to brass hats, another particular in which a change of specifications is apparently long overdue...
...long last is ready to put the profit motive to work to get the big copper companies to increase their output of this bottleneck metal...
Inhabitants of the Houses, Dudley, and Wigglesworth will be contacted by entry representatives of the War Service Committee Wednesday and Thursday for any rubber, metal, old clothes and cloth, used phonograph records, or musical instruments which they would like to contribute to Harvard's scrap drive. After the drive entry representatives will continue to relieve students of any scrap they may have, but paper and tin cans are not wanted at present...
...duty at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, served as a World War I training ship, escorted transports for General William Sidney Graves's Siberian expedition in 1918. Decommissioned after World War I, she was supposed to become a Portland public monument (like the Constitution in Boston). But now her metal is too precious: she must die in a junk yard...