Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became an overseas gag that a WAC who had done nothing more than commute to & from the Pentagon could hardly miss at least three awards: the American Theater Campaign Ribbon, the Victory Medal, the Good Conduct Ribbon. Totals ran so high that the wartime U.S. could not afford the metal to strike the medals themselves, issued ribbons instead...
...underselling Swiss have since held on to the biggest share of the domestic market. But Elgin may supply the new spring metal ("Elgiloy") to other watchmakers if they want it. Elgin believes it has enough bounce to put the U.S. on top again-and strength enough to keep it there...
...discouragement, few seemed to think that the U.S. was in for another steep price rise all around. Wheat and hogs made the headlines. But there were plenty of reasons why commodities in general would not follow. Hogs had been going their own wild way for months (see chart). Some metal prices, due to the worldwide shortages, might well rise some more-and stay up. But food was something else again. Wheat was up because of 1) a shortage of freight cars and 2) Herbert Hoover's recommendation that food exports to Europe be stepped up (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...whose legs were pinned under shapeless rubble murmured prayers for the injured and dying. Near him, a Red Cross worker chattered and sang to a blur of protruding arms and legs and bloodstained pillows while she tried to free her hand from a crushing weight. In another mess of metal, a soldier whose uncle lay dead near his feet quietly sipped water while he waited for rescuers to cut him free with acetylene torches. Near by, eight circus midgets trapped in a saw-toothed corner of a coach were pulled free...
...from Newark's Barringer High School one afternoon last week, lanky, six-foot Freshman George Allen, 15, saw that he might miss his bus. Sprinting across the icy sidewalk, he fell sprawling on his face, picked himself up, hopped aboard just in time. Then he realized that a metal pencil he had carried in his shirt pocket had stabbed him in the chest, straight toward the heart...