Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inclined to believe that you really don't want war; you just want the phony boom conditions of a war without actually fighting one . . . Remove the pecuniary profit from your private armament making and we wonder how long your recently acquired international morality would survive...
...British cousins across the North Sea, the Danes believe in Queens. Above all, they honor their own Queen Margrethe (1353-1412), who united the crowns of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. "When men saw the wisdom and strength that were in this royal lady," the medieval Chronicle of Lubeck said, "wonder and fear filled their hearts...
...cold war has created a new kind of industrial battlefield. Obscure and little-known, it lies behind closed laboratory doors. There, researchers for industry and Government are tackling the problem of developing and perfecting wonder metals"-those metals capable of meeting the unparalleled strains and stresses of the jet and atomic age. Aircraft builders have already laid down this axiom: the nation which first masters the use of wonder metals will rule...
...best-known "wonder metals, aluminum and magnesium are now commonplace, although a few decades ago they were prohibitively high priced. Aluminum and its alloys are still the basic materials of all aircraft. But magnesium, which is one-third lighter, is encroaching on aluminum's domain (Douglas's 1,238-m.p.h. Skyrocket has a magnesium-sheet fuselage). In the field of atomic power the most important metal, next to uranium, is zirconium. Reason: it is one of the few metals yet found which will not absorb atomic neutrons. But it is a frightening metal to process; in powder form...
...extraordinarily tough in itself, it mixes with steel, nickel and other metals to make alloys that can withstand the tremendous jet heat. The U.S. must depend on Africa, however, for 95% of its limited supply. Accordingly, a big hunt was started for substitutes and yielded the most promising wonder metal of all-titanium...