Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamburg (pop. 1,600,000), a strike of 13,000 transport and utilities workers left West Germany's largest city without gas, water, buses and streetcars for nine days. In Bavaria, 130,000 metal workers downed tools. Nine hundred thousand Ruhr metal workers demanded a 10-pfennig (2.5?) hourly increase...
...industry to be located where the power came from: in Canada. Last week Alcoa's big plan became just a set of useless blueprints. British Columbia gave the go-ahead for developing the vast power potential of the Yukon to Canada's Ventures Ltd., big mining and metal holding company headed by publicity-shy Thayer Lindsley of Toronto (TIME, June...
...Hungary, factory workers noticed that scrap metal delivered to them contained fragments of church bells...
...capsule of cobalt-60 (cost: $50) will cast its X-ray beam through metal welding, will easily show up every flaw. This inspection process, too expensive with old-style X-ray machines, increases the welding safety factor, reduces the thickness of metal that need be used. Example: if all welds are inspected with CO-60, a 50 ft. "Horton sphere" for storing high-pressure gases can be built safely with 12% less steel at a saving...
TITANIUM will be stockpiled by the Government. To guarantee supplies for jet aircraft, airborne weapons and lightweight-infantry equipment, the U.S. Government is spending $128 million to help finance new plants, will stockpile any metal not bought by private industry...