Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a few conspicuous exceptions, the new cars look remarkably alike. Only a slight exaggeration is Packard's claim that it is "the one 1936 car on the roads . . . you can recognize." Chromium radiator grilles are almost universal. Horns are recessed. Headlights spring out horizontally from the radiator shell like the two eyes of a rangefinder. Lower lines are horizontal, often more decorative than functional...
...Manhattan last week towering Otto Klemperer marched before the Philharmonic Symphony, thrust his baton into the air and drew forth the overture to a new music season. Next day in Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski was back on his spotlit chromium podium. Rehearsals were under way in Boston under Sergei Koussevitzky, in Cleveland under Artur Rodzinski. Soon orchestras all over the U. S. will be in full stride...
Odors of roast beef, warm rubber and ozone pervaded the 22nd floor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Hotel Kansas Citian last week. The odors arose from electric knives, heat applicators and ultraviolet light generators in operation. Those machines and a variety of similar medical machines, ornamented with shiny chromium and nickel, dials, gauges, thermometers, bulbs, motors, rheostats, pedals, levers, knobs and buttons were working because 400 physicians who are sincerely trying to put physical therapy on a respectable basis in the U. S. met in Kansas City to conduct a Congress of Physical Therapy...
...most electrochemists Columbia University's Colin Garfield Fink is the man who found a practical way to make chromium stick to other metals by electroplating. Plump, grizzled Dr. Fink has done other valuable work electroplating with tungsten and rhenium but he worked longest and hardest with chromium. When he found that sulphate ions from ordinary sulphuric acid in his plating bath would do the trick, automobiles, kitchens and modern furniture began to take on a new appearance...
...Fink took out his chromium-plate patent in 1926, eventually assigned it to United Chromium, Inc. of Manhattan. Few months ago United Chromium heard that General Motors Corp. was helping itself to the Fink process, indignantly entered suit against GM and two other defendants. They did not deny using the Fink process but argued instead that some details of the Fink process were of dubious merit, that other chromium-platers had preceded Dr. Fink anyway...