Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patch broken bones doctors use everything from rope to chromium nails. Last week in the Lancet, venerable Dr. Ernest William Hey Groves, emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Bristol, told how he had successfully used hunting trophies and soupbones as scaffolding for fractured arms and legs. Examples...
...foggy day last week three sandaled elephants, followed by Cinemactor ("Elephant Boy") Sabu in a Rolls-Royce, ambled from St. Katherine's Docks to Mincing Lane with 37 silver and chromium chests of tea. Auctioneer William J. Thomson, grandson of the 1839 William J., knocked them down at prices ranging from $6,000 for the silver to $100 for the chromium to bigwig tea merchants, brokers and producers. Thus celebrated was the Empire Tea Centenary; thus furthered was a publicity drive to spur Britain's great tea trade...
...Ohio) realized that if they could vary the ingredients of an alloy so as to set the Curie point at any desired temperature, they would have a highly sensitive substance for thermostatic control. Experimenting with several mixtures, they finally got what they wanted with an alloy of iron, nickel, chromium, silicon...
...told Sacramento reporters that after six years of experiment he had perfected a modern method of making champagne from oranges. To the juice of oranges and grapefruit he adds distilled water, dextrose and yeast. The mixture is then slowly drawn through a series of five glass-lined, airtight, chromium-fitted 200-gal. tanks. By the time the juice reaches the last tank, 75% of the sugar has been converted into alcohol. This takes ten days...
...turning the bottle upside down, collecting the sediment on the face of the cork, freezing the wine in the neck of each bottle, removing the cork and the top lump of dirty ice. Mr. Moore performs this essential process mechanically. He drives two corks, connected by a three-inch chromium bar, into the bottle. He then places the bottle on a rack, turns it upside down. The sediment collects on the bottom of the cork in the neck. When the dirty cork is pulled out, it leaves the clean cork in its place...