Word: duraluminum
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...gathering crowd. Firemen drove a fire engine through a wooden fence, attacked the fire. Then the hero of the crash-a 38-year-old New Yorker named Edward McGrath-arrived. He grabbed an ax, waded into the furnace heat, chopped a hole in the broken plane's duraluminum skin. He squeezed in & out seven times and hauled out seven people before he collapsed. Then firemen rescued three more...
Such tests helped him determine how fast his big thigh muscles were reviving. In time, four-pound duraluminum braces replaced the heavier steel frames...
...Souvenir collections (Jap helmet, canteen, gas mask, paper money) are still selling strong in New Britain, asking prices are in fresh eggs, steaks, oranges, canned goods. ¶Wristlets and watch bands made from scrap plane duraluminum, stamped "Guadalcanal," "Tarawa," etc., bring $8 to $15, depending on workmanship. Polished cat's-eye shells, strung as necklaces, range from...
Less than 25% of the duraluminum, remote-control, helium filled dirigibles in Costa Rica are more than 550 years old, and less than 5% contain reciprocal steam engines made in Jugo-Slavia...
...Reason: all materials had to be carried up by climbers. In duraluminum they weighed seven and a half tons. In wood they would have weighed 110 tons...