Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same room with his development team, consisting of five designers and 16 engineers. The trick was to do the job on a shoestring. The team found a way to revamp the dies from last year's models, use them to stamp the new car's sheet metal; all parts were bolted together instead of expensively welded; front and rear bumpers were made identical; the front sheet metal assembly was reduced to six pieces. In seven months the Lark was ready. Total development cost: less than $3,000,000, v. an estimated $150 million for the 1959 Ford...
Rusty Red Dog. Despite the billion tons of rich bituminous coal still underground, conveyors and tipples are being sold for scrap metal; white-frame company towns such as Red Bud, Golden Ash and Kenvir are boarded up and rotting; in Closplint and Punkin Center, streets rust-colored from a half century of "red dog"-slate and clinker dust-are quiet and deserted. Miners who could afford to have gone off to Paducah, Louisville, Cincinnati or even Chicago. Others, who could not, are in worse trouble than in the Depression '30s. In Kenvir (pop. 800), where the Peabody Coal...
...Labor Statistics wholesale-price index last week stood at 119.4% of the 1947-49 average, a shade above the December level and only a fraction above a year ago. Several major raw materials even registered sharp decreases. Lead was marked down from 12? to 11? per Ib. when the metal piled up despite import quotas. Because of a worldwide glut in oil, British Petroleum Co. lopped 18? per bbl. off the price of Mideast oil. Creole Petroleum cut 5? to 15? off the price of Venezuelan oil, and in the U.S., Gulf and Ohio Oil dropped their buying price...
When the Fives-Lille-Cail Co. near Lille, France, found its metal business falling short of expectations, it sent out immediate-dismissal notices to 527 employees. The men asked for time to find new jobs and went into an abortive sit-down strike, but the management was unmoved. Last week came helping hands from two Roman Catholic churchmen. Achille Cardinal Lienart, Bishop of Lille, and Emile Maurice Guerry, Archbishop of Cambrai, issued a joint statement about the responsibilities of managers toward the managed...
...practical difficulties are formidable. The heat must be carried away by refrigerating machinery as fast as it is formed. Neutrons will shower thickly through the coils as soon as a fusion reaction starts up inside. They will contribute more heat, and they may do worse. Neutrons often change a metal's structure in such a way that its electrical resistance increases. If this should happen suddenly to a hydrogen-cooled coil while a monstrous current is flowing through it, much of the apparatus is apt to vaporize on the spot...