Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irritated when Japanese civilians scrambled recklessly across the U.S. Army's Somagahara rifle range near Tokyo in search of scrap metal, G.I. William S. Girard one day last January decided to get tough. He shoved an expended cartridge into the grenade launcher on his rifle, slid a blank into the rifle, and fired in the general direction of five civilians 30 yards away. The cartridge hit a 46-year-old woman in the back and killed...
...shortage of workers but of skills. In Washington the U.S. Labor Department disclosed that unfilled demands for skilled workers have jumped 17% over last year, against 9% for other workers. The Cleveland employment office reported it is getting 1,000 applications each month for skilled metal workers and is unable to fill them. Said F. E. James, Dallas director of the Texas Employment Commission: "Companies around here still scream at us for every available skilled man. But they are becoming more sensible now when we can't supply them, for most companies on their own have hunted...
Brooks, a Gordon McKay Professor here since 1950, has done research in the cohesive energy of alkalis, metal interfaces, lattice imperfections in metals, and the theory of electrical properties of germanium and silicon...
...Lampoon's Ibis disappeared again early Friday morning. The metal bird had been up only since Thursday afternoon. An investigation is being conducted to determine the cause of Thresky's disappearance...
...metal pieces made from welded scrap iron Donald Knudsen's After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes surely has the more pretentious title but Joel Blatt's Death in Venice is the more successful effort, very effectively creating a scene and mood...