Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into mass production; it might be the forerunner of a whole new school of automobile design and materials. The chemical industry, cashing in on the new field of petrochemicals, was finding new markets every day; polyethylene, for example, once known merely as the squeeze-bottle plastic, was replacing rubber, metal and even other plastics in everything from piping to poker chips. Textile makers had to cope with a bewildering new array of synthetic materials for clothing and furnishings; in 1953 an entire apartment could be furnished with materials drawn from a test tube. Nowhere was change more evident than...
...striking feature of the building is its lighting arrangement. For economy, ridged metal molds were used as matrices for the ceiling. Recessed between these ridges are fluorescent lights, which cast horizontal and diagonal shadows...
...billion in plant expansion, and has completed about two-thirds of the total. The job has been done so well that Chief Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming will issue no further tax write-offs for 120 of the 237 defense categories. Among them: blast furnaces, brass mills, metal cans, magnesium, oil wells, paper, rubber, optical glass. Furthermore, Flemming has suspended fast tax write-offs for another 49 categories, including military aircraft, electric power and machine tools, while he takes a second look. The belief is that the U.S. may have enough capacity in those groups, too. But what of the other...
...that they have no intention of yielding it to a unified all-Korean government at the peace table. Last September Russia granted $250 million towards North Korea's "recovery.?' Last week Red China agreed to send $317 million in "coal, cloth, cotton, grain, building materials, communications equipment, metal products, machinery, agricultural tools, fishing boats, paper and other daily necessities of the people." Red China also agreed to-cancel North Korea's war debts incurred up to next Jan. 1 (apparently a way of saying that North Koreans must pay occupation costs after that) and to "facilitate civil...
SHORTAGE of titanium, the newest wonder metal for jet planes (TIME, June 15), is still so severe that Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott wants Congress to authorize a subsidy to the industry to help boost production immediately. Current production is only about 2,800 tons a year, and planned production of 25,000 tons by 1956 falls far short of needs. Talbott wants to subsidize the industry with Government-guaranteed loans, a rapid tax write-off, and Government contracts to buy all it can produce...