Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delay. Finally we are allowed to move ahead again, and we meet the tanks heading back to the nearby fort, like fire trucks ready for the next alarm. Before us in the highway sits the ambushed truck, its cab split apart, its load a charred twist of metal, its tires still burning. Near by, with automatic rifles perched on the green mounds that separate the paddies, crouch Vietnamese guardsmen, looking out across the flat fields. Several miles away, a black plume of smoke rises, and three French planes make successive dives at a field while a fourth circles overhead, spotting...
...rewarding project for space men, said Oberth, is to set a gigantic mirror revolving on an orbit thousands of miles from the earth. It should be about 100 miles in diameter.* Made of shiny metal foil reinforced with wire, it would spin slowly around a space residence at its hub. Since nothing in a space orbit has any weight, a slight amount of centrifugal force would keep the mirror expanded...
...flocks of guinea hens and a whole salmon (length: I yd.), gaped at one buffet display featuring a woolly lamb surrounded by genuine lamb chops. The swan-song theme was carried out by a dozen huge swans, carved from ice, which graced the tables, plus flocks of smaller black-metal swans dangling from trellises in the yard. While a dance band (Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's), a rhumba outfit and an eight-woman string ensemble blared and sawed away, Marianne, all in pink with a diamond tiara, held court in a bower of pink flowers. Said...
From another group of commodities came surprisingly similar news: the nonferrous metals, long in a downward spiral, were suddenly perking up. In an unexpected spurt of buying, lead prices rose for the first time in eight months (to 13? a lb.), picking up ¼? a lb. for two days running. Zinc jumped ½? to 9¾? a lb., its first rise in more than a year. Tin, tacking on a nickel, shot up to 93? a lb. as purchases were stepped up. Judging from the metal futures markets, which last week scored the biggest gains in years, metal speculators figure...
...bubbling metal markets reflected a strong undertone in most raw materials that in the last month has sent the Dow-Jones commodity index up 10 points to 185. Part of the reason has been the big volume of construction contract awards, now running 13% ahead of last year (which in turn promises better business for appliances and other industries later in 1954). Furthermore, business is well along in its inventory cutback and is ordering again. The chemical industry, for one, reported better sales last week. And the trade magazine Purchasing, which polled more than 500 purchasing agents all over...