Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad of British workmen marched round the cathedral city of Salisbury (pop. 33,000) one day last week, carefully painting broad white circles around the metal telephone posts. The men had not gone mad, as some Sarumites suspected; they were simply trying to protect Her Britannic Majesty's property from ill-mannered dogs. After much experiment, Post Office researchers had reached a solemn conclusion: that not even dire necessity will drive a normal dog to cross a bright white line. Instead, dogs try to sneak around the end of the line, and, in the case of a circle, never...
...Stanford scientists made their find with the most powerful "microscope" known to science. Its "eyepiece" is a 2½-ton magnet, its light source a giant accelerator that spews electrons in a thin stream. Fired at sheets of metal foil, the electrons whip through the metallic nuclei where they are shoved and twisted by faint electrical fields. In the huge eyepiece, the scattered electrons are counted, their new paths traced. All their measurements told the Hofstadter team that though the center of the nucleus is 130 trillion times denser than water, its edge thins down to cottony fluff...
Totting up the balance sheets on titanium, Holloway thinks the wonder metal's future is just beginning. He thinks that titanium now is about where aluminum was when it was selling for $28 a Ib. Titanium now costs $20 a Ib. in sheetmetal form, 50 times as much as aluminum. But Holloway says: "In a few years we should be able to cut that price in half," and eventually get it down to where it could have a wide civilian use. Holloway himself already has begun to use it in small key parts of valves, soon will be making...
...risen four times over the prewar level to 1951's record $322.9 million and a $16 million net after taxes. Last year sales dropped off slightly to $319 million, and higher break-even costs cut the net to $9,800,000. But President Holloway is banking on wonder metal titanium as his long-range bet to keep Crane expanding...
Another big shakeout came in copper, once one of the most critical shortages. As free trading in copper was resumed on the London Metal Exchange for the first time in almost 14 years, spot copper, which had been artificially pegged by the British government at 31? a Ib., nosedived to 26.3? on the first day. Before the week ended, the price was back up to 28?, but coppermen felt that this was only a short reprieve. Britain has not yet begun to sell copper from its null stockpile, and Chile, which has kept 65,000 tons off the market...