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...coffin, the diggers say they found the mummified body of a young girl, almost perfectly preserved. She must have been the daughter, wife or favorite of a man of consequence; her clothes, still in good condition, were rich with fur and ornaments. She had a mirror of polished silver alloy and golden jeweled earrings. Close at hand were primitive musical instruments. (These and the girl's unusually long and slender fingers suggested to one of the romantic, but not very scientific, diggers that she may have been a musician...
...bought gold bullion in Berlin-50 million marks' worth of nice, shiny gold for the depleted Soviet treasury. Last week, a frantic message came from Moscow: the gold was phony! Investigation showed that Germans (among them many D.P.s) had operated an illegal smelter in Berlin, casting a base alloy with a thin gold coating into small "gold" bricks. This week, the Russian assayers who had permitted themselves to be fooled were in jail...
...this acid test, Elgin National Watch Co. demonstrated its new spring, which it called the biggest thing in watchmaking since the introduction of jewel bearings in 1704. Mainsprings have been the source of about half of all watch troubles. Elgin bragged that its new spring, made of a nonmagnetic alloy, will eliminate almost all these troubles...
...world price of 10¼?. Copper and zinc would follow suit, and these last crippling shortages would probably end as imports poured in. ¶ No general rise in steel was seen. Some carbon steel products which were being produced at little or no profit would probably go up. Alloy steel (10% of the steel output), on which controls had already been removed with no price effect, would probably stay put or even decline. ¶ General Motors was the first to raise prices. It boosted car and truck prices an even $100 all around. Ford said he would hold the line...
...Kilogram is a spool-sized chunk of 90% platinum, 10% iridium, weighing exactly one kilogram (2.2046 Ibs.). The Meter, a rod of the same alloy, is exactly one meter (39.37 in.) long. For nearly 70 years nations have sent their standards to the Pavilion de Breteuil for measuring and checking, but modern science has lessened the importance of The Meter at Paris. Instead of using a meter bar for a check, a scientist in a well-equipped laboratory can now determine the accurate meter in terms of light waves, which give as accurate a measure of distance as direct comparison...