Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against the threat of higher prices, many a businessman borrowed money to build up inventories, thus put more pressure under both credit and prices. In March wholesale metal prices rose nearly 1% over February, stood 11% higher than a year ago. With more price increases in the offing, FRB's Bill Martin hopes to discourage marginal borrowers who can put off their spending plans, thereby balk more inflation...
...Raytheon engineers are confident that they can track large commercial airliners, flying 70,000 ft. up, 200 miles away. When rain clouds cut off the view of a distant airliner, the radar can switch to a special "circularly polarized" wave that is reflected differently by spherical raindrops and the metal surfaces of wings and fuselage. This gimmick makes an airliner visible even behind a rain cloud. Another gimmick makes the radar blind to all objects that are not moving, such as mountain peaks...
...tube is a 4-in. pipe, 100 ft. long, with a massive cylindrical chamber at either end. Nearly all the air is pumped out of the tube and one chamber. Then air is pumped into the other chamber, which is sealed off from the tube by a strong metal diaphragm. When the pressure reaches 2,000 Ibs. per sq. in., the diaphragm breaks. High-pressure air rushes into the tube, forming a shock wave whose temperature reaches 15,000° F.-1½ times the temperature of the sun's surface. It passes in a tiny fraction...
NICKEL PINCH will be eased by more metal from the Government stockpile. After diverting 12 million Ibs. during the first quarter, the Office of Defense Mobilization will divert another 18 million Ibs. in the second quarter...
Died. William Bushnell Stout, 75, famed aviation pioneer, builder of the first (1918) internal-strut, cantilever-wing U.S. aircraft, the first commercial monoplane (in 1919) and the first all-metal plane (a Navy torpedo bomber in 1922), co-designer of the famed Ford Tri-motor ("Tin Goose") in 1925; of a heart attack; in Phoenix, Ariz...