Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement room, known as the "slave-quarters," uncovered by workmen in the forties, presents its own tantalizing remnants of the past. A stark metal bed and a small bureau bearing an old photograph of a dairy cow still remain. Workmen originally found rotting drapes about the room and a carpet in much the same shape. The drama behind it all remains ambiguous...
Last Remnant. The Xetás are a dying people. Not more than 250 of them now survive. They live in bands of 15 to 25, moving camp every few days. They have no agriculture, know no metal, make no pottery. They sleep on the ground instead of in hammocks as most Brazilian primitives do. Their weapons are bows and arrows and stone axes. Their knives are sharp flakes of stone. They eat everything that they can find or kill in the jungle-fruit, insects, snakes, roots too fibrous for white men's stomachs. In times of plenty, they...
...themselves are the professor's worst opponents. Now that they have their peace with civilization after four centuries, they are coming out of the jungle, cutting their matted hair, switching from stone to metal implements. Koi is their leader in this respect. "Stone is no good," he declared last week. "Xetá life is no good; outside is better." Koi wants to be a taxi driver...
...drive for "a totally integrated producer of packaging materials," Chandler has taken Standard Packaging on a whirlwind ride of growth and acquisition, boosted sales from $24 million in 1955 to $64 million in 1958, has picked up ten companies in three years. This week he bought the eleventh: National Metallizing Corp. of Trenton, N.J., which owns a process to coat paper with metal. Chandler is convinced that the new process is cheaper than present methods of laminating foil to paper, sees a big market for his product in wrappings of all kinds, even though competitors are working on similar processes...
...heaviest, Atlas is probably the biggest object that has orbited. Overall, it is 85 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter. It is a delicate beast. Its main body is a fuel tank of bubble-thin metal. This bulk makes it easy to see, but it also creates atmospheric drag. For this reason, its estimated life is only 20 days...