Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help motorists stuck in snow and mud, Campbell Chain Co. of York, Pa. has put on sale curved metal lugs that snap easily around tires. The Traction Klips, designed for emergency grip action, are flipped off with a special lever. Price: $5 a pair...
COMET CRASH mystery has finally been solved by British scientists, though Planemaker De Havilland will not announce the findings until the inquiry is formally completed next month. Rumored cause: the intense pressures of high-speed, high-altitude flight caused the metal in the fuselage to "fatigue" and the planes split open in midair, killing...
...program assumed that in wartime all sources of supply except Canada and Mexico would be cut off from the U.S., and that even some metal-processing plants in the U.S. might be blasted out of commission. But if the stockpile assumption is that the U.S. will be cut off from all supply, it is the only aspect of U.S. defense based on that idea. All the armed forces have planned their strategy with the idea that the U.S. will have allies, and that it will be able to maintain supply lines back and forth across the oceans. Furthermore, if self...
Another announced objective of the expanded program was to strengthen the entire mobilization base by keeping the metal industry healthy, i.e., buying materials when there were plenty available and, consequently, when prices were low. Though operating under a heading of military necessity, such a program amounts to price supports for part of the U.S. mining industry. This year, for example, U.S. producers of lead and zinc were in such serious trouble that they wanted higher tariffs to protect themselves from cheaper foreign metals. President Eisenhower last month rejected the tariff boost, but instead he almost doubled the rate of stockpile...
...rights, the Swedish Ministry of Trade last week prescribed strong medicine: pour in cheap foreign goods to bring prices down. To attract imports from the U.S. and other countries, Sweden abolished tariffs and restrictions on about half its imports. Included on the free list: chemical products, leather goods, most metal products, all paper except newsprint, wood products, shoes, hats, pottery, rubber products, glassware, dried and canned fruits, rice, brier pipes, fountain pens. In addition, the Trade Ministry eased restrictions on most commodities still requiring licenses...