Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CUTS in the price of titanium, the wonder metal needed for jet engines and planes (TIME, June 15) are in the offing. A new process, developed by United International Research, Inc. to produce titanium sponge directly from titanium dioxide and bypass expensive steps in present methods, may cut the cost of sponge (from which plates, sheets, etc., are made) from $5 to $1.50 a pound...
...Chicago's Abbott Laboratories last week, researchers sat in fascination watching the first action film of a microorganism being killed by one of the new antibiotic wonder drugs. The drug, fumagillin, killed the amoeba which causes the dread amoebic dysentery (see MEDICINE) by making it explode...
Kirk tells his story of the conservative stream with the warmth that belongs to it. Even Americans who do not agree may feel the warmth-and feel, perhaps, the wonder of conservative intuition and prophecy, speaking resonantly across the disappointing decades...
...Titanium, the wonder metal, is even lighter and stronger than magnesium" [TIME, June 8]. To those of us who know and love the metal magnesium, it nearly broke our hearts to see you put it in the heavy weight class of metals. We would like to point out that titanium is approximately 2½ times as heavy as magnesium. We still believe that magnesium is the lightest of all structural metals...
...British merchantmen and 15 other foreigners (including the U.S.S. Baltimore) as the Queen's yacht swept down the lines. As the Queen passed by, the Russians cheered her, and a flashing electric sign spelled out Sverdlov. Next day the Russian ship headed toward home, leaving Britons to wonder whether they should scoff any more at a navy that is bigger than theirs...