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Word: metalled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian dumping of tin on the world market. Delegates from tin-rich Bolivia, Malaya, Indonesia and Thailand complained bitterly that a price slump caused by Russian dumping threatened to undermine their economies. The trouble was not confined to tin producers; for many a nation economically dependent on a single metal or commodity, fluctuations in price and demand have become an economic nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE METALS MALADY.: Controls Are No More Than First Aid | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Last week the Weather Bureau successfully tried out an apparatus that makes the hurricane itself tell the position of its center. An Air Force B50 flew over the calm eye of Hurricane Helene, then 500 miles east of Palm Beach. A metal cylinder dropped from its bomb bay. After it had fallen a while, a plastic bag popped out and inflated to form a balloon 20 ft. in diameter. From it dangled a miniature radio transmitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hurricane Tracer | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...were fully aware that U.S. mine production has fallen while imports have climbed (see chart). Canadian politicians railed at the ruling, but Canadian miners were more subdued. "It's easier to get rid of a quota than a tariff," said V. C. Wansbrough, vice president of the Canadian Metal Mining Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Relief for Distress | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...nine metal spheres gleaming in the daytime and flashing tiny lights at night, the Atomium dominates the Fair. The architecture, too, smacks of modernity and the future. One building looks like a great stone bird; another has a corrugated wall; the roof of the United Nations exhibit hall is a half-sphere. A few of the national pavilions deviate from the functional scheme--Thailand has a charming gilded pagoda; Italy a stucco villa. But for the most part, all the catchwords of the 20th century can describe the Fair--futuristic, atomic-age, electronic, Cinemascopic...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Impressions of the Brussels Exposition: Diversities, Faults Typify 'World, '58' | 10/4/1958 | See Source »

...explored last spring, but was abandoned since valuation was too difficult. Replacement of the hundreds of thousands of lost sheets of music will be a "long and expensive process," according to George L. Kirklin '59, manager of the Band. Almost all of the irreplaceable scores were recovered from a metal filing cabinet, he reported...

Author: By Mark J. Eisner, | Title: Fire Marshal Starts Investigation of Blaze | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

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