Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these steps did not go far enough, Chile planned to create a state-controlled Corporation del Cobre which would control the production, price and distribution of all Chilean copper. In effect, U.S. companies would lose their firm hold over the world's biggest source of the metal outside U.S. borders. Chile was reluctant to take the move. But its determination to stand on its own economic feet, whether well-shod by U.S. dollars or not, was too strong to permit an alternative...
Davenport closed the ceremonies with a dramatic demonstration of the cyclotron's potency. He placed a block of metal that had been bombarded by the machine before a Geiger counter. A violent ticking from this machine showed that the block was radio-active...
...idea was simple indeed. The way to stop spark plugs from broadcasting, he decided, was to enclose the ignition wires in metal shields leading from the magneto to the plugs. Thus, there would be a return path for the high-frequency elements in the spark current (the source of the trouble). The plugs would go right on broadcasting, but the waves they created would stay inside the shield...
General Electric Co. shaved $10 off the price of its upright vacuum cleaner (new price: $44.95) by such changes as a wood-and-metal for an all-metal handle. G.E. was about to bring out a new dishwasher that would not require permanent plumbing fixtures, thus abolishing installation costs running to $125 on current models. G.E. had also eliminated a soaking gadget on a new-model automatic washing machine, thereby saving the buyer $70 (price: $299.50). After two years of experiments and a $2,500,000 outlay for development, Bendix Home Appliances, Inc. introduced a completely new automatic washing machine...
...like going back into another century when John and Mary explored the faded old white house where the handset, rundown Journal had been published for decades. Blocking their way was a weird jumble of cardboard boxes, auto parts, dried nuts, empty jars, tin cans and old metal. In a stack of unopened letters...