Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time a Government fact-finding board, prodded by a strike, recommended it as a wage increase to 31,370 C.I.O. Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and a ladleful of A.F. of L. Metal Tradesmen...
...time, in other respects, was not kind to Greenwich. Like an ugly fungus, London crept around King Charles's royal park. The city's smoke blinded the telescopes, corroded metal parts, covered lenses with soot. Electric railways interfered with magnetic observations. Worst were street lights, whose glare outshone the Milky Way. Only British astronomers could have hung on so long...
...last July, a line of heavily laden trucks moved through gutted Tokyo's waterfront area. A group of Jap officers barked orders to bewildered laborers, who unloaded the trucks, dumped heavy metal bars into the bay. One worker overheard the officers discussing a treasure in gold, silver and platinum worth 30,000,000,000 yen ($2,000,000,000) "for use in building up a greater Japan after things quiet down...
Last week Kindelberger proudly showed the public his new "plane. It looked so much like North American's P-51 fighter planes that one ex-Mustang pilot labeled it "The Colt." As Kindelberger had planned, the all-metal 185 h.p. Navion was faster (160 miles top) and carried more (four passengers plus baggage) than most light planes. But it was also expensive enough to take it out of the light-plane price class; the tag said...
Infra-red rays are hard to observe; their waves are too long to be seen as light and too short to be heard in radio receivers. But they can be measured as heat on a bolometer-a machine with metal strips whose electrical conductivity is altered by heat rays falling on them...