Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press release to mark their passing, the last set of wooden goal posts left the Stadium last week. The usual accompaniment of the Harvard University Band was missing and there were no undergraduates triumphantly waving splinters. This was an official orderly ceremony: in their place H.A.A. workmen created] unyielding metal structures...
...flask. Last week mercury rose another $4 to $6 a flask, causing one veteran trader to complain that "the market's just plain crazy." But there was a reason: producers were not running their mines full tilt to take care of big new demands for the metal (e.g., in the atomic field) for fear that the demand would disappear while they were spending a lot of money expanding. But when the Administration recently guaranteed the producers a fixed market over 3½ years for 200,000 flasks at $225, the mines began stepping up output in a hurry...
...Atomic Deposits. For those who want to protect documents and other valuables from atom bombs, the Railway Express Agency has set up a service to seal them in bombproof, ventilated concrete vaults deep inside Iron Mountain, near Hudson, N.Y. Customers pack their possessions in cylindrical metal containers three inches in diameter, one foot long. Rental: $10 the first year, $5 thereafter...
Some goods new to military technology were added to the embargo list-e.g., titanium-processing machinery (titanium is the new "wonder metal" for airplane jet engines...
...four-armed idol of Lord Venkateshwara (one of Vishnu's aliases) lives in a mammoth temple atop a 2,500-ft.-high hill at Tirupati in South India. In the temple court stands a big metal receptacle known as a hundi; into it pilgrims drop offerings of jewelry, money and gold...