Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strollers, there were three acres of deck space. A walk around the Queen's promenade deck added up close to a quarter of a mile. To carry the passengers effortlessly from one to another of the twelve decks, which rise within the Queen's 50,000-ton metal hull and spill above it like the hanging gardens of Babylon, were 21 noiseless elevators. The murals of the public rooms, boarded up during the war, were unveiled again. Both public and staterooms were paneled in woods from every continent-from beech to rich mahogany, rare and exotic betula...
...third of Rumania's oil (expropriation of British and U.S. interests would complete Soviet control), 90% of her coal, a large portion of her gold, metal, coke, chemicals, and part of her banking...
...bille is one of those unusual men who can scratch his right ear with the middle ringer left hand held behind his back (see cut). In general, his life has been unusual. He has been an errand boy, a bellhop, an elevator operator, a metal worker, a mechanic, an artilleryman. In Venice and Brussels he was a gigolo. In Fezzan he trafficked in arms. During this time, Sébille escaped two attempts on his life and took part in three major riots. Hit by German shrapnel at Rethel in 1940, Sébille was taken prisoner. Later...
...John T. Burwell Jr. of M.I.T. uses bearings made of radioactive steel to investigate the basic facts of friction. He can tell if one hundred-billionth of an ounce of metal is transferred from one bearing surface to another...
...Electrocution. Doomed people kept for weeks in dirtiness were promised a shower bath. When they entered the cabin they stepped on a high-tension metal...