Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from chlorine to nylon and Dacron-like Terylene. London was also buzzing over the company's jump into titanium. I.C.I, will gamble $10 million on a new factory, hoped to move into the market with an initial annual production of 3,000,000 Ibs. of the scarce wonder metal...
Even such a resort center as Miami has its new industries, with small sportswear and light-metal plants fanning out into the suburbs. Miami's biggest employer (17,000) is International Airport, where Eastern Air Lines, National and Pan American all have their main repair and overhaul shops...
...real−and least expected−source of wealth is just now being discovered. Long considered poor in basic raw materials, the state has been finding uses for things that once were considered worthless. Around Jacksonville, two companies are mining ilmenite and rutile, from which the wonder metal titanium is produced. To the south, near Fort Myers, an oilfield is producing commercially. Oil was also found last month in a new area not far away. To the north, slash pine is feeding the paper and chemical industries. In the Everglades, Newport Industries and other companies are turning out tough ramie...
...Bush and his collaborators have various plans for getting around this difficulty. Perhaps, they think, the electrons from the sensitive metal could be "stored" on a surface that gives off no gases. Later they could be released, either to impress a strong image on a photographic plate, or to be scanned and displayed on a screen after the manner of television. The scanning system would not only yield a much stronger image with the same amount of light, it might even eliminate the fogging due to sky shine...
...shimmering in the sky." He attacked head on and got the surprise of his life. "I almost scrape [one] fat belly as I dive past. Then I am caught in the slipstream, buffeted about so violently that ... I wonder if my tailplane has been shot away . . . Damn all this metal...