Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Billy Hand the Hatter put up $3 a week for him to deliver hats. "Any young man who would do what you have done today." said Billy, ''deserves a job." On the Way. When his father started up a junkyard, young Bernie lugged scrap metal, stowed away nickels from his own pay for his account in the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank until, at 19, he had $1,200 to start his own business...
...deeply has the recession chewed into U.S. corporate profits? The Federal Reserve Board last week reported that in the first quarter of 1958, after-tax profits of manufacturing corporations tumbled 40.7% compared to first quarter 1957. Nondurable producers were off 32.1%, while durable-goods producers fell 46.1%, with primary metals and metal products (down 54%) and auto companies (down 52.2%) taking the worst licking. Yet once again Wall Street was busy looking ahead instead of backwards. With steady rises in most important groups, the stock market climbed another 5.17 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average to new high ground...
...bull's interest quickened. He charged; there was a crunch of metal as his lowered horn ripped through the truck's fender. The driver fled. The delighted crowd chanted for Matador Aparicio to take the driver's place, but he politely declined. Then an enthusiast leaped down from the public seats, raced to the truck cab to renew the battle. The crowd roared as it recognized Toledo's Mayor Joseé Conde Alonso. Secure in the driver's seat, the mayor circled the arena with the truck, looking for a chance to ram his enemy...
Originally just a child's noisemaker, the pennywhistle is a 14-in. bit of metal tubing, drilled with six holes and flattened at one end for a mouthpiece. Though its natural range is one shrill octave, the seasoned player can squeeze out almost another octave. Like the New Orleans Negroes who once fused Dixieland from a great many different sources (including spirituals, marches, French and Spanish dance melodies), the penny whistlers began by imitating bagpipers and American jazz, with the occasional addition of native rhythms. To foreign ears the simple 4/4 tempo of pennywhistle jazz may seem repetitious...
...some $225 million this year, pushing the country into an overall $95 million trade deficit. Bolivia, which gets about 80% of its export money from tungsten, lead, tin and zinc, whose prices are off as much as 30%, is in the same economic fix. So are such metal-producing African exporters as Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo, whose exports of nonferrous metals were hit by a 9% price decline in the first quarter of 1958 alone...