Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building was all wood, with the nails sunk and sealed in. Anything that might contain lead or cadmium was excluded; the principal exception to the no-metal rule was stainless steel for the cages that contained experimental rats and mice. Water pipes, where possible, were made of plastic. The pure mountain air was electrostatically filtered. Visitors were barred because they might carry metalliferous dust; even research-staff members had to take their shoes off before entering the animal rooms. The animals were fed a diet with a meticulously defined metallic content, and their pure drinking water was superpurified. Whether...
...next question was obvious: Do humans react like rats when they ingest cadmium and other metals? By way of answer, Dr. Schroeder offered chemical analyses of 400 human kidneys showing that Americans at birth have a negligible amount of cadmium stored there, that the amount of the metal increases gradually with age and reaches its highest levels in patients with high blood pressure of unknown origin. He did not have to remind his medical audience that kidney function is important in regulating blood pressure, and that many cases of high blood pressure are clearly associated with kidney disorders...
...corporations but by the craft unions, which are so biased that it is easier for a Negro to become a physician or junior manager than an electrician or a plumber. A recent Labor Department survey showed that in Baltimore there were no Negro apprentices among the steam fitters, sheet-metal workers or plumbers; in Newark, none among the stonemasons, structural ironworkers or steam fitters; in Pittsburgh, none among the operating engineers, painters or lathers; in Washington, none among the glaziers, sheet-metal workers or asbestos workers...
...soldiers did not have to do all the killing. They were soon joined by thousands of Hausa civilians, who rampaged through the city armed with stones, cutlasses, machetes, and homemade weapons of metal and broken glass. Crying "Heathen!" and "Allah!", the mobs and troops invaded the sabon gari (strangers' quarter), ransacking, looting and burning Ibo homes and stores and murdering their owners...
...Pittsburgh manufacturer of steel for machine tools: "If the war were concluded tomorrow, I think we'd experience a 10% drop in business, but the backlog would be back where it now is within one year." Adds Charles Ducommun, president of Ducommun Inc., a Los Angeles metal supply firm: "A peace market would be a bull market, and most businessmen would happily adjust to it." Manufacturers commonly believe that they could quickly turn their war production lines around to serve the clamoring consumer demand, and to meet the expected rise in Government orders for domestic programs. Though...