Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first exhibition in Paris in 1932, Calder asked artist friend Marcel Duchamp what he should call the new moving metal sculpture. Duchamp replied, "Mobiles." In the twenty three years since, "Mobiles" have all but replaced chandeliers, and their originator has become the first native American sculptor to win international recognition...
Sweden has been trading its own low-grade uranium ore (200 grams of uranium per metric ton) for refined French uranium metal. At present the Swedes have one 300-kw. reactor built underground in Stockholm, another big reactor with a probable output of 20,000 kw. and some plutonium...
After Hitler. As a sculptor, Fritz Wotruba would have long since become a world figure if it had not been for Hitler and World War II. The son of a poor Czech tailor, Wotruba was put to work at 14 as a metal worker, took art lessons at night. Although he was 18 before he finally became a sculpture student, by 23 he had sold a major work, Monumental Giant, to the city of Vienna. But what was the beginning of a brilliant career was cut short by the arrival of Hitler, and the Nazi campaign against what they called...
...presses economize in time, men and materials. In one manufacturing operation, for example, the Air Force formerly needed a 1,600-lb. slab of aluminum, had to machine certain parts. Total cost: $18,000. Now, with the new presses, a 200-lb. slab of aluminum furnishes enough metal for the same number of parts, which can be stamped out. Cost: less than...
...Smooth metal dog tags on non-tarnishable chains, authorized by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, will soon be available to each University student--at his favorite grocery store...