Word: stainless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other battles are fast being won Originally, titanium proved incredibly difficult to machine and work. But dozens of steel companies have been working with the metal, and have found ways around the difficulties. Titanium, only half as heavy as stainless steel and four times as strong as most aluminum alloys, is now replacing both steel and aluminum in aircraft for skins, parts and struts...
Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky (rhymes with Trotsky), a gaunt old man of 69 with stainless-steel teeth, delivered the longest funeral oration (27 minutes). An Old Bolshevik and longtime trades unionist, Zapotocky had once been popular with the Czech workers, but had alienated them by harsh complaints and horny-handed methods of spurring production...
...supply e.g., aluminum, producers made no attempt to raise prices. Their great (127%) expansion, launched since Korea, made them fearful of a glut if their prices got out of line. Though U.S. Steel and other big producers said there would be no general increase, some steel prices, such as stainless steel, went up. Mindful, however, of the public outcry stirred up by their unannounced price rise of five years ago (TIME, March 15, 1948), the steelmakers showed no signs of raising the basic price of steel ingots, a bellwether for the whole price level. Steel production soared to a record...
...another Bell-built rocket plane with sweptback, stainless steel wings and tail, and a Monel metal body. It is designed to reach 2,250 m.p.h...
...supermarkets in Philadelphia installed DiGiTab, a fingerprinting device. If the cashier is suspicious of a check, he asks the customer To leave a fingerprint which is then attached to the check. DiGiTab's machine takes the print in a few seconds with a colorless, odorless, stainless ink. Where installed DiGiTab has frightened forgers away. In the past five months, Milwaukee's Krambo Stores cashed 108,000 good checks totaling more than $5,000,000. It did get stuck for $250 worth, all cashed by the same forger, but DiGiTab helped nab him. Rental fee: $100 a year