Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drinking wife, he later explained. When friends asked about Evelyn, Scott said that she was under treatment in a distant sanitarium. Ten months passed, and then at last the cops came around. Searching the house and its landscaped grounds, the police found some interesting objects: in the incinerator were metal snaps from a woman's underclothing, and carelessly buried under a heap of leaves on an adjoining lot were false teeth and eyeglasses later identified as Evelyn Scott...
Scientists have searched for a means of turning heat directly into electric current since a series of experiments in the 1880s showed that a heated metal plate will "boil off" clouds of electrons. Reason: an electric current is simply a flow of electrons. Last week, before the 124th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, General Electric announced that it had turned the trick. The device that may change the world's means of making power: a small "thermionic converter" that now turns about 9% of its heat energy into electricity, may eventually convert...
Tommy was once plain Thomas Hicks, and his mother worked as a "tinbasher" in a metal-box factory. He served for a time as a swimming-pool attendant on the Mauretania ("I noticed that most of those rich necks also carried plenty of wrinkles"), spent his layovers in Manhattan plunking coin after coin into the jukeboxes to hear Elvis Presley sing Heartbreak Hotel. When Tommy retired from the sea, he bought a guitar and sang for his meals in a succession of sleazy Soho clubs. British Songwriter Lionel Bart heard him, collaborated with him on Rock with the Caveman...
...capacity." At times, businessmen even gave thanks for the breather. Frank Magee, president of Aluminum Co. of America, noting that aluminum has often been in short supply, said cheerfully: "For the first time in history, we can promise the potential user of aluminum a steady, dependable supply of metal...
...notable example is steel, which is learning to operate like a short-order restaurant. Not since 1942 have users ordered steel on such short lead times: six weeks for heavy construction beams, two weeks for sheet metal for automobiles. In turn, steelmen were producing just enough to meet delivery schedules. They were well aware that any sudden economic upturn would not catch them without production capacity. But it could catch customers short on steel. As long as customers continue to buy only for immediate needs, steel may not rise above 75% of rated capacity before June, but the industry expects...