Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factory in a hot climate should reflect outside heat and absorb inside heat, passing as much of it as possible to the outside. In a cold climate, the wall should gather all possible heat from the sunlight, while keeping inside heat from moving out. Modern materials, such as sheet metal, mineral wool and glass brick, allow the architects to design efficient "filter walls...
Counted Out. General Electric, two of its subsidiaries and three officials were fined a total of $56,000 by a U.S. district court for conspiring to control world markets in hard-metal alloys during the '30s (TIME, Oct. 18). The court turned down a recommendation of six-month jail terms for two officials "because of their distinguished services to the Government during...
...renamed in Zhdanov's honor: 1) the town of Mariupol, where he was born; 2) the Tagansky District of Moscow; 3) the Primorsky District of Leningrad; 4) Rozhdestvenka Street in Moscow; 5) the Izhora Shipbuilding Works; 6) Moscow's Exemplar Printing Works; 7) the Krasnoye-Sormovo Metal Works; 8) the Vladimir Tractor Works; 9) the Leningrad State University; 10) the Naval Political Academy in Leningrad; 11) the Pioneers' Palace in Leningrad; 12) the Krasnoselskaya Division of the 45th Guards...
...ancient islanders, who had no metal or even timber, manage to transport the statues over the steep rim of the crater and down the rugged mountain? Their hideous religion may have supplied the motive, but not the means...
...SoundScriber's dictating machine ($637.69) has a wafer-thin, Vinylite plastic record which can be erased and used over again by putting it in a machine which heats and whirls it for 29 seconds. ¶Thomas Mechanical Collator Corp., of New York City, has a machine whose metal fingers simultaneously snatch sheets in proper sequence from as many as five piles, staple them for distribution. ¶ International Business Machines' master clock keeps all electric clocks in a building on time, even those plugged into ordinary sockets. It corrects them every hour by an electronic impulse which it sends...