Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While a few performers struggled over a balky bit of dialogue, the rest of the cast, chorus and crew quit rehearsal for a break. Cigarettes glowed. Wax paper from sandwiches rustled on bare metal chairs. A percolator murmured on a hot plate next to a pile of coffee-stained script books. Six white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front...
STOCK-PURCHASE PLAN will be offered to African natives for first time. Copper-mining Rhodesian Selection Trust Ltd., controlled by Manhattan's American Metal Co., Ltd., will let both native and white workers take part of their wages in stock, and company will...
...each of its past three wars, the U.S. has paid heavily for lack of a sizable domestic tungsten industry. Each time it has been gouged by foreign producers for the vital metal needed to toughen high-grade steels. After the Korean war, when world prices per standard 20-lb. unit leaped from $18 to $90, the Government finally began 1) stockpiling tungsten for defense and 2) fostering a domestic industry with a $30 million annual subsidy to buy U.S. tungsten at $63 per unit, about twice the world market price. Last week the tungsten subsidy was blasted from an unexpected...
Solid Gold Skyscraper. Reynolds Metal Co. is supplying gold-colored aluminum to brighten the facade of a 34-story office building now rising in Manhattan. Reynolds produced the color by an electrolytic process which covers aluminum with a gold-impregnated hard aluminum-oxide skin...
...allowance for the wind. Bouch, with his schoolboy mathematics, cut a grim and pitiable figure at the inevitable court of inquiry. His design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this is a more enlightened...