Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Athanassios made his way to the automobile factories and metal shops of Detroit. From time to time he mailed $5 bills back to Soultana, but World War I prevented a reunion. In 1922 Soultana and her family were driven from Yalazik by the war between Turks and Greeks. A year passed before the lovers re-established contact; regretfully, they despaired of getting Soultana into the U.S. immigration quota. In 1930 Athanassios sent $275 to his brothers to buy Soultana's passage to America. The brothers, he says, never gave her the letter or the money, and reported that Soultana...
...barreled shotguns, Belgian sporting rifles, Springfields, cheap nickel-plated revolvers, an occasional vintage Krag or Winchester. They also have a couple of dozen .30-cal. machine guns, a few mortars and Browning automatic rifles. Castro runs a tiny arms factory to make tin-can-sized grenades out of sheet metal, TNT and Scotch tape...
...first physical impression I had of Russia, as we descended from the plane, was the quality of the metal ladder-flimsy, antique, short by half a step, and made of some queer light metal, ornately engraved. Dozens of times later, I saw similar ladders. The Russians can build a ten-billion electron-volt cyclotron, but a good simple flashlight seems beyond them. Priority goes to what counts; nobody cares if you break a leg hoisting yourself on an airplane, but to put an artificial moon in the sky is something else again...
Three observers who were worried about the state of U.S. education long before Russia's metal moons made the subject generally popular offered some observations last week about what is wrong. The three: Dr. James R. Killian Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology president and special assistant to the President for science and technology; Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover. father of the atomic submarine; and Dr. Merle Antony Tuve, director of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
...Anaconda up 2½ to 46⅞, Magma 5¼ to 47. Behind the push was a ½? rise to 23½? a Ib. in copper price at custom smelters, which normally supply about 15% of U.S. refined copper. On the London Metal Exchange, where world prices are set and fluctuate with daily sales, copper closed...