Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside cavernous Sepahsalar Mosque, by the light of bare electric bulbs, Teheran officials last week tabulated the fruits of the electoral process in Iran. For three days the city had been voting for its twelve Deputies to the National Majlis. The tellers sat solemnly around little tables, fished into metal boxes, pulled out ballots and shouted names and numbers to colleagues who carefully inscribed them in big books. Boys ran in & out through the cigarette haze bearing little cups of Turkish coffee and glasses of strong tea to fortify the ballot checkers...
...custom in Iranian elections, it was all pretty much a fraud. The twelve lucky winners had been decided before the first voter dropped his scrap of paper into the metal box. All were supporters of Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's government. The voters, with cynicism born of experience, knew what to expect. One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container. Asked why, he retorted: "This box is magic. One drops in a ballot for Mohammed and lo, when the box is opened, it becomes a vote for Fazlollah...
...bombed-out municipal lycée in Brest, for instance, has never ' been rebuilt. The law faculty of the Sorbonne has had to expand into a building usually used for boxing bouts. Meanwhile, the Sorbonne's laboratories are hopelessly short of equipment: instead of the precise metal weights needed for experiments, students must make do with weights crudely fashioned out of cardboard...
...perfect crystals have no practical utility. Said Dr. C. G. Suits, G.E. director of research: "We certainly cannot use them to support a suspension bridge. But their discovery is very recent. In time, applied science and technology will find a practical use for this form of metal...
...engine production will get a boost next year through a $1,100,000 deal between Crucible Steel Co. and the National Research Corp. For 25,000 shares of stock, the steel company has bought a half interest in National Research Corp.'s subsidiary Vacuum Metals Corp., the only cornmercial producer of high-purity metals by the vacuum melting process. Vacuum Metals will expand production 500% to more than 100 tons of metal a month for navigation instrument bearings and turbine blades...