Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factory. The manager proudly declared production had gone up'from 20,000 units in 1950 to more than 200,000 last year, "and we expect to continue the increase in the years to come." "That's fine," said the inspectors. "What do you produce?" Answered the manager: "Metal plates that say, 'Elevator out of order...
...sure-kill" Falcon will still depend on planes to get it to the right place, at the right time, under the right circumstances. Some missiles, like artillery shells, will be duds, and the enemy bombers will fly over. Even clever missiles may be fooled, e.g., a shower of shiny metal like Christmas tree tinsel can be as distracting to a radar hunter as an alley cat to a beagle...
...grey room on the fifth floor of a St. Louis office building, the newest Wellsian brain in the earthly world was enthroned. This quintessential brain looked like nothing more than a collection of filing cases, stretching in a 60-ft. semicircle about the room. From within the grey metal cases came a faint humming sound; along the light-studded metallic face were scores of twinkling orange sparks, rippling like waves of thought. As in the Grand Lunar's palace, a blaze of light flooded over the pale walls and pillars of rosy pink. Air conditioning filtered out the dust...
...West Coast aircraft company's $1,128,000 contour milling machine, which will soon be built to work any known metal into as many as 18 shapes automatically, correct itself with a feedback control keyed to magnetic tape...
Titanium Bolts. Standard Pressed Steel Co. of Jenkintown, Pa. has started producing titanium bolts for air frames and airplane engines. Main advantages of the bolts over the conventional steel type: they are stronger and less subject to metal fatigue, save as much as 1,000 lbs. in a plane's weight. Price: about...