Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banners fluttered from the flagpoles in the darkness overhead, and through the doors of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art surged the opening-night black-tie throng. To celebrate the first evening of spring, girls wore their gayest dresses - flaring Pucci pajamas, metal-petaled above-the-knee A-lines, the newest see-through evening gowns. The occasion for all this festivity? The Modern's salute to a painter who has been dead 114 years, Joseph M. W. Turner, the 19th century romantic saint who so believed in communion with nature that...
Characteristically, his office in Quincy House is spartanly furnished: there are a few modern chairs and a grey metal desk, strewn with pamphlets on archeology and a tattered copy of Webster's. A framed map of Harvard is on the wall behind...
Although a few speculators had already introduced metal tokens into a few Nevada houses-notably Spark's Nugget and Lake Tahoe's Wagon Wheel -Segel's tokens (usually nickel alloy) began rolling around the state like tumbleweed, are now being shoved into the slots of one-armed bandits in 50 of the state's 70 gambling houses. For the operators, it means more than nostalgia. The coins have proved a source of revenue. Customers have taken such a shine to tokens that instead of cashing them in for a dollar upon leaving, they have begun...
...Market." The Belgian government "actively solicits U.S. investments which will meet the Belgian need for more technical know-how." Foreign investors are offered a series of incentives, including the lowest corporate taxes in the Common Market. Belgium especially wants the U.S. to bring in electronics, precision op-ticals, nonferrous metal and chemical businesses...
...long run, shortages may be eliminated by the nonferrous-metal industry's current expansion drive, which includes Anaconda's recent decision to spend $400 million to $600 million to increase its copper output 50% by 1970. For faster relief, metal men are looking to Washington. They winced last year when the Government threatened to dump part of its stockpile to force back aluminum-price hikes. Now they only wish that the General Services Administration would accelerate plans to sell off eighteen kinds of stockpiled metals this year to ease the squeeze...