Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behlen, a self-taught engineer who never got beyond high school, wasted few ideas. While working for the Railway Express by day-and turning out metal toe-caps for shoes, dental bridge clasps, and clock hands for ice delivery cards in the family garage with his father at night-he noticed that egg crates were being ruined when pried open. He invented removable metal crate clamps that sold so well, for 32? a pair, that he set up a full-time business in a building he bought for nothing down. (He promptly rented out the upstairs for $40 a month...
...loan in six months. Then the corrugating idea really blossomed. One day he devised a new way of double corrugation by folding a piece of stationery in an unusual pyramidal form. It was so much stronger that he decided to use the principle for building. Panels of the metal proved so strong that buildings as wide as 120 ft. could be put up without frames or trusses. To demonstrate the strength of his first frameless building he hung tractors weighing 40 tons from the ceiling. (In 1955 one of the buildings survived an atomic bomb test in Nevada with only...
World War II provided the economic jolt that unlocked nature's treasure house. Tall timbers crashed in a quickening tempo; new metal mines opened up. Commercial fishing became a patriotic duty-and a $45 million business. To operate the new industry, a flood of immigrants poured in from all over Canada and Western Europe. Population zoomed 60% in twelve years to 1,525,000; Greater Vancouver became a city of 665,000, with spreading suburbs of prosperous picture-windowed homes overlooking the broad, sun-splashed Pacific inlets...
...Hero. Maverick lay stunned for five minutes, but as the hunters approached, he struggled to his feet. Blindly, he staggered to a metal-plated gate, clawed at it, stuck his nose into a crack, scrambled, scratched, pushed. Then, in utter, bewildered defeat, he slumped to the ground, and was carted...
...Instead of turning to his wife when his trousers need mending, the good commune member now takes his problem to the "sewing brigade." The result, declares Peking, is that 20 million women in seven provinces now find themselves "freed" to contribute the family pots and pans to a scrap-metal drive and turn their attention from housework to such progressive tasks as "road building, tree planting and ditch digging...