Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benedict was talking about last week was a huge new program by the Atomic Energy Commission to use almost pure zirconium as a construction material for nuclear reactors. To three companies-National Research, Carborundum Co. and National Distillers Corp. -AEC handed out contracts to buy $70 million of the metal over the next five years. From a trickle, zirconium production will soar to 2,200,000 Ibs. annually. Price: around $6.50 a lb., less than half previous costs...
...home. But the goat was still at work, and in the midst of the heavy task the workmen's cable broke, and the Buddha crashed to the ground, badly cracked. To the priests' surprise, the plaster was only a shell; beneath it shone the glint of metal. Trai Mitra's old plaster Buddha was a mere mummy case concealing a beautiful sculptured image wrought of 60% gold. Though to the pious Buddhist one divine image is as valuable as another, regardless of intrinsic worth, it was nice to know that infidels estimated the worth of Trai Mitra...
...testily kept bedrooms as they were. ¶ From the U.S., former German Bauhaus Leader (now a U.S. citizen) Walter Gropius sent plans for a curved-front, eight-story apartment house. Set on stilts, the building will be constructed of white concrete and white enameled metal. ¶ From Brazil, Oscar Niemeyer submitted a toned-down version of his usually flamboyant tropical style. His plan, approved last week, won acclaim at once. It calls for an eight-story, glass-ended apartment house honeycombed with private balconies. To service the building, which will rest on 14 V-shaped stilts, Niemeyer has housed...
...explains. The search led him to Paris' National Library and books of 19th century acousticians, e.g., Helmholtz. Their theoretical discussions flashed through Baschet's teeming imagination and emerged as sounds-new sounds of otherworldly groans, melodious thuds and haunting echoes, which came from the vibrations of two metal spirals plus a plastic resonator. Baschet took his "sound" to a musician friend named Jacques Lasry, who proclaimed it "interesting." With Lasry's encouragement, Baschet has completed four nameless instruments, all of them already in their third incarnations, and plans to invent a score more...
...Corp. has developed 600 kinds of packaging paper and cardboard, with all combinations of properties needed by manufacturers and shippers. Some traditional packaging materials have been joined with the newcomers. Bradley Container Corp., for example, is now manufacturing a can for Colgate-Palmolive's liquid detergent, Vel, with metal ends and flexible plastic sides. Thus. Bradley has combined the easy stacking of the tin can with the squeeze action of the polyethylene bottle...