Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inject an element of mutual confidence into world diplomacy, and to strengthen the United Nations. Poland and Hungary have shown that bipolar conception of contemporary world history no longer fits the facts. Russian support of the United States in the United Nations has buoyed this hope. While the metal is hot, President Eisenhower must help to forge bonds of East-West cooperation to replace the blackjacks currently being laid about...
...army of World War II. ex-Army Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 36, credited with dispatching 40 Nazi soldiers to the glory of the Third Reich, landed a job after long spells of sickness and penury (TIME, Oct. 1). Kelly, taken on .by a St. Louis scrap-metal outfit as a contact man. said happily: "I'm among friends here...
NICKEL STOCKPILING will be halted on Jan. 1 for first time since Korean war. Office of Defense Mobilization thinks new sources of supply from Canada and Cuba will soon lick shortage of defense metal", already has big enough hoard to divert 25 million Ibs. of nickel slated for stockpile to private industry in fourth quarter...
...metal spring developed by the Elgin National Watch Co., so far tested only in dogs, gives promise of relief for a common disorder of the human heart, reported Dr. James H. Wible and colleagues of Detroit's Wayne University College of Medicine. Called "Elgiloy," the metal is formed into a valvelike flap and covered with nylon. The surgeon fits it into the heart in place of a sub-par mitral or aortic valve. Within 48 hours normal tissue begins to grow around it, in about two weeks completely encloses it. The metal is expected to retain its springiness beyond...
Died. Sir Charles Richard Fairey, 69, burly, towering (6 ft. 6 in.) British yachtsman who founded (1916) the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., built seaplanes and fighters during World War I, developed Britain's first all-metal plane, pioneered in aircraft streamlining, won a knighthood (1942), later (March 1956) saw a Fairey Delta 2 jet push the world's official speed record for conventional planes to 1,132 m.p.h.; of a heart ailment; in London...