Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that their speed when they hit the satellite would be about 46,000 ft. per sec. (31,000 m.p.h.). At this enormous, meteorlike speed, he figures, a particle only five-thousandths of an inch in diameter would punch through the satellite's skin. Since each pound of metal contains more than a million such particles, a warhead weighing 8,000 Ibs. would punch 8.000 holes in the satellite station. The deadly little particles would be moving in slightly elliptical orbits around the earth. They would scatter widely, then concentrate again. Each time the damaged satellite circled the earth...
...camera finds in the terminal, as in a giant utensil, a certain metal delight, but in almost every other respect Indiscretion is, for the gifted men who made it, an indiscretion indeed...
Climax' miners, who must tunnel through Colorado's Bartlett Mountain for the ore, call it "molly bedamned," and until World War I no one had much use for the metal. The Germans, then short of tungsten, first used it to harden the barrels of their Big Berthas. It was used on a large scale again in World War II. In peacetime, however, most steelmakers preferred tungsten; molybdenum production usually dropped off to a trickle...
...With the help of the jet age, hustling President Bunker has managed to turn moly into a bonanza. When Bunker, who is considered one of the top U.S. authorities on raw materials, took over Climax in 1949, the company owned North America's biggest known supply of the metal, in Colorado, but had few buyers. Bunker, 58, went to Washington to argue that the U.S. was in poor shape for the heat-resistant alloy it needed for jet engines, persuaded the Government to start buying...
Glass Screens. A Fiberglas yarn for window screens has been put on sale by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Highly resistant to corrosion and weathering, the material has the further advantage over metal that it can be dyed in permanent colors. Price of standard mesh screening: about 16½ a sq. ft., approximately the same as bronze or aluminum screening...