Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright and shiny affair, all a glitter with highly-polished brass and chromium plate, the new switch-board sports a chic little dial, supposedly a much needed labor-saving device, which, the telephone company claims, will eliminate the pseudo laborious task of pushing the signal lever to connect with the outside trunk line, while at the same time, it is also asserted, it will speed up the service greatly, but this only after the operator has "finally got the hang...
...country seats of the mighty. He tarried at metropolitan hostelries and rural inns. He ran by rivers at twilight and by factories in the glare of noon. Mountains shouldered out of the plains in front and fell away to the horizons behind. He saw the sun catch the chromium glint, of the skyscraper and he watched a single pine tear the rising moon to shreds on a distant hill. And always by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways, red dress. On steps, in doorways, by the side of old and winding roads...
...rate of 100,000 a day, visitors from all over the Midwest were packing into Detroit's chromium-pillared Convention Hall last week. There was an automobile assembly line. Tight-rope walkers and acrobats performed from time to time. More than 175 companies allied to the automobile business had displays. There was a series of automobiles beginning with a steam-driven model of 1863 and ending with a super-streamlined car by Briggs Manufacturing Co. which, lacking running boards, comfortably accommodated three people on its wide front seat. Lean old Henry Ford, who never exhibits his cars with other...
...fire engine, nosed in for blessing. But traffic jams developed so the priests blessed every half-hour. After the last mass suppliants fol lowed the pastor, Rev. John Joseph Mahon, and another priest outdoors for the blessing of a special new shrine for motorists. The shrine is a chromium-plated Cadillac radiator frame set in a rock garden. A chromium-plated cross surmounts the radiator-cap and a St. Christo pher medal supplants the Cadillac insignia. A bulletin board replaces the radiator grid...
Iceboxes. . . . You won't find chromium hinges; the shelves are lighter than you'd find at $19.85, but they're heavy enough for average service...