Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General dangers of high speed flight--including metal strain, lack of maneuverability, and increased chance of crash landings...
...December rise, reflecting mainly higher cost of food, medical care and rent, amounted to only 0.2% over the November level-one of the lowest in creases in 23 months of inflation. But rising wholesale costs of such items as metal and lumber will continue to ripple through the economy in higher price tags on consumer items...
...category of fatalities. The number of deaths and disabilities caused by work-related illness is harder to gauge because the effects may not appear for years. Lamp-industry workers of the '40s are still dying from berylliosis, a lung disease brought on by exposure to beryllium, a lightweight metal used for coating fluorescent lighting tubes. Similarly, workers who inhale tiny, indestructible fibers of asbestos as they are blown into place for insulation can contract lung cancer more than two decades later. Dr. Irving J. Selikoff of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, an expert in asbestos-related illness, predicts...
Goats' Bladders. The industrial safety problem goes back to prehistoric man, who not only cut himself with axes while skinning bison but developed fatal anthrax from contact with the animal's hide. Roman metal workers wore face masks made from goats' bladders to protect themselves from dust and lead fumes. Recent technological advances have brought new hazards faster than old ones have been controlled. Manufacturers have long since stopped using mercury in the production of men's hats, thus eliminating the "hatter's shakes" disease that may well have accounted for the peculiar behavior...
Countries made this shift largely by trading dollars for U.S. gold. During 1968, the U.S. lost $1.2 billion in gold, leaving the U.S. with only $10.9 billion of the metal to meet $30 billion of potential foreign claims against the dollar. Though most of the loss came before April and the U.S. gold stock has stabilized since the two-tier system was set up, the total is low enough to cause concern. Warns Vice President Harold