Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doomed? American Can Co. last week got ready to produce a so-called fiber ersatz for the metal cans of which this company has hitherto been No. 1 U.S. manufacturer...
...terrors' of the bomb has instilled unjustified fear." Previous misunderstanding of incendiaries derives from early experiments by British scientists, who studied the laboratory behavior of pure magnesium, which burns fiercely in water. The British concluded that magnesium incendiary bombs would behave the same way. But the metal in real bombs is only 80% magnesium. The rest is an alloy to make them tough enough to penetrate roofs. The alloyed magnesium burns much less intensely than the pure metal, which can take oxygen as readily from water as from...
Customers, who have already begun to buy paint and motor oil in paper containers, will not be surprised to learn that the fiber can is also essentially a paper can. Some fiber cans still have metal tops and bottoms...
...petroleum-butadiene plants need around 300 tons of steel and 89 units of compressor horsepower per 1,000 tons of butadiene capacity; alcohol-butadiene plants need about the same amount of steel, 169 units of compressor horsepower, plus 27 tons of copper-the scarcest metal of all-v. almost no copper for oil. In the face of this ruckus, the final decision of the rubbermen is that there is no sense in building any new raw-material capacity (even if it could be built fast) as long as petroleum and alcohol between them can fill this bill...
...broad, green lowlands along the Don above Voronezh, or to climb the high bank below the city. Then they, too, died under the Russian fire. But more came. They lived to bring up machine guns, light artillery and mortars, heavy guns and tanks -the flesh and metal of the bridgeheads which the Germans at last secured east of the Don. Above them the Luftwaffe, flying in numbers usually stronger than the Red squadrons, ceaselessly pounded at the Red Army...