Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist's most original style is revealed in metal pieces fashioned from scraps of steel and nails and welded into wire-like constructions. Here his style is modern but not international in the anonymous sense of the cubist, futurists, or constructivists. It has a definite Spanish flair...
...production was so high that, for the first time since 1953, N.I.C.B. thought "a substantial degree of inventory rebuilding was occurring," thereby reducing one of the sources of demand that might take up part of the slack when automakers cut their buying. Even as these reports were being issued, metal prices began to sag a bit. Steel scrap, critically short a few weeks ago, fell $2 a ton, and scrap copper declined...
...praised him as "consistently correct," later made him boss of Manchuria, probably at Russian instigation, since the Russians were then in occupation. There Kao Kang learned the bag-of-gold technique, only the gold was Russian, and not just yellow metal, but iron, steel and machinery. Kao built Manchuria into a great industrial empire. But when he began issuing his own currency, making separate trade treaties with his Russian pals, and boasting that while China was depressed his Manchuria was booming, the idea began to get around that tough Kao was more consistent than correct. In 1953 Mao pulled...
...field outside Palo Alto, Calif, last week, a small metal doughnut, six feet across and two feet thick, bustled noisily into the air, then hovered seven feet off the ground. The pilot rode on a platform above the disk, protected by a pipe enclosure. The contraption had no wings, no visible helicopter blades. On display for the first time was the Flying Carpet, built by Hiller Helicopters for the Office of Naval Research...
...statue was made largely of sheet-gold supported on a wooden framework. Phidias probably fashioned a model out of clay. From it he took clay negatives of the parts that were to be made of gold. When these were baked and reinforced with iron, goldsmiths could hammer their metal into them, reproducing faithfully the shape of the model. Along with the molds were found chisels and hammers of the type used by goldsmiths of the period...