Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jupiter Inlet Light registered 162 before it was blown away) shattered plate glass, ripped roofs off buildings, filled city streets with flying debris. The blast battered coconuts from palm trees and bowled them about beaches and pavements. Power lines snapped with blinding blue flashes. A concrete and metal hangar at West Palm Beach was mashed and 40 airplanes wrecked...
...modest funeral, without speeches and without flowers..." The nation he had inspired planned it differently. The plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem which had been renamed the Givat Herzl...
...unveiled a new rear-view mirror, which it whooped up as the first really efficient auto mirror. Automakers who tested it thought so too. The "Wyd-Vue," invented by Am-Ben's President Charles L. Bennett, is a series of five mirrors mounted on rubber cushions in a metal frame, which can be attached to the molding atop the windshield. With a mirror surface of 70 square inches and a 180° arc of vision, a driver can see cars behind to the right & left as well as straight back. Bennett said he had already booked orders...
...tasty, packaged plane meals enabled him to branch out to airports in 21 other cities, begin catering to 16 U.S. airlines. In San Antonio this week, he opens his newest airport restaurant, serving such Dobbs delicacies as rainbow trout cooked in almond sauce, and baked potatoes kept hot in metal foil. This year Jimmy Dobbs, 55, expects his airport restaurant gross to exceed...
...looked something like moving day at a metropolitan bank. Each of the two private cars that pulled up in front of Yale University's library had four big metal chests inside-and an armed guard. Nobody actually expected hijackers, but Yale, egged on by the insurance companies, was taking no chances. The chests held the private papers of James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson and pertinacious observer of the 18th Century in general...