Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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from which the light metal titanium is derived. Its monazite sands offer the promise of thorium, a source of fissionable material. Underlying more than...
...even if it's new." Marx was one of the first U.S. toymakers to switch to plastic. Though the first plastic toys broke too easily, he now makes most small toys of polyethylene, a durable material that can be turned out up to 64 times faster than metal. Unlike most toy manufacturers, who virtually close down for six months when the Christmas lights go off, Marx sells 90% of his output to the big chains, e.g., Woolworth and Walgreen's, which do a brisk year-round toy business, and Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney, which order in huge quantities...
...high time. With new-found momentum, the non-Communist unions (the Socialist Force Ouvriere, the Catholic Christian Trade Union and several independents) have already signed up the employers of some 600,000 Paris-area metal workers to contracts identical to the Renault terms. Employers and non-Communist unions jointly hailed the new settlements as milestones in labor relations. If it did not want to be left behind, the Communist-led CGT would probably have to follow suit: French workers were in no mood to be pauperized for the benefit of the revolution...
...Charles Steen, uranium millionaire (TIME, June 27). Foley will operate the Happy Jack for Barlu, and build a big mill where, under present plans, uranium processing will be carried two steps farther than private industry has ever gone before: from uranium oxide concentrate to uranium salts, and then to metal. Says Foley's Executive Vice President M. S. Sullivan: "We have a pretty big group here, more than required for just the Happy Jack deal. We have hopes of getting into bigger things...
...Thomas Cyril Fogarty, 52, moved up from executive vice president of the metal division to president of Continental Can Co., No. 2 U.S. canmaker (after American Can), to succeed retiring President Hans A. Eggerss. General Lucius D. Clay continues as chairman. A strapping (6 ft. 3 in., 207 Ibs.), jovial packaging expert, Fogarty was born in Rockland, Mass., graduated from Harvard ('22). He joined Continental Can in 1929, became package designer, rose steadily. To keep Continental Can growing, Fogarty will continue diversifying into paper and plastic containers, expects to cut production costs with a new all-steel...