Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IVORY COAST Volunteers will teach practical vocational skills at three technical centers in rural areas. These centers develop basic skills in carpentry, masonry, mechanics and metal work so that young men with little or no formal education can meet local requirements for skilled laborers...
...putting less silver in its coins to alleviate the silver shortage, the Government expects to collect a windfall of $1.6 billion from seigniorage, which is the difference between the face value of coins and the cost of making them. Example: the old silver quarters contained 240 worth of metal, but the new copper-core quarters have only 10 worth-which gives the Government a "profit...
...official conferred with his superior; then someone blew a trumpet. The water throwers began dousing the seated students. Umbrellas popped open--but the high-pressure streams shredded the fabric and twisted the spidery metal ribs...
...were hardly enough to save the company. What did save it was a new plane, whose basic design Bob Gross conceived while lingering over coffee one morning in the lobby of Burbank's Union Air Terminal. The plane was Lockheed's Electra 10, a twin-engine, all-metal, ten-passenger ship with the highest load/gross-weight ratio and the lowest price ($36,000) of any comparable aircraft of its time. The Electra 10 sold solidly to U.S. airlines as well as to carriers in Latin America and eight European countries (Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in an Electra...
...industry. Last week Sir Edward Warren announced that his Coal & Allied Industries Ltd. would open a new mine in Cessnock, 80 miles north of Sydney; it will be worked with automatic equipment, including a U.S.-manufactured continuous miner, which is operated by three men, crunches coal seams with spinning metal teeth and can chew out ten tons a minute. Helped by government tax allowances, mine owners have so far spent $236 million on such new equipment; 98% of Australia's rich black coal is now efficiently mined by machine instead of pick and shovel. Mechanical equipment has trimmed...