Word: assayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International Labor Office assigned British Political Scientist Herman Finer to make a thorough assay of these dreams...
...Hopes. This week few Congressmen had had time to assay all the shimmering facets of Ickes' vast, visionary nugget. But to at least one of them it seemed just fine. Joe O'Mahoney has shouted for years for the development of the West, expense be damned. To him it means not merely more economic independence for the U.S., but industrialization for Wyoming and environs. Ickes threw in another shiner that appealed to monopoly-hating Joe: he suggested that all patents and processes affecting scarce metals, whether U.S.-owned or not, be made available to the Bureau of Mines...
Electrolysis, rather than smelting, for extracting iron from its ores is being developed by the Ford Motor Co. Reason: conventional smelting is not economical in the U.S. for ores which assay less than 40%, and Ford owns great deposits of low-grade (20-30%) ores near unused water power in Upper Michigan...
...manganese carbonate ores, such as Montana's, assay a mere 20-27% (as against 50% for imported ores), but they are easy enough to concentrate by methods developed soon after World War I. But low-grade oxide ores, like Nevada's, evaded all ordinary flotation methods until the Bureau of Mines men hit on a new scheme: flotation in reverse with a new solvent...
Little John & the Parrot. Up from Athens last week to assay the situation and decide whether his troops should dig in for the winter pretty soon or try to strike on through, drive the Italians into the Mediterranean before they could poise a counterblow, went the long-nosed, aristocratic Commander in Chief who taught and led the Greek Army: General Alex ander Papagos (paa-paa-gos). Every morning, for two hours at Army Head quarters in Athens, he had conferred intently with Premier General "Little John" Metaxas. His enemies derided General Papagos as "Little John's" Papagei (parrot), overlooking...