Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SCHEDULE. At once his trusted Union Stock Yards President Arthur George Leonard, a founder of the Exposition, went to work to build a bigger, better fireproof edifice in six short months?a steel, brick & concrete modern-Gothic structure, three-storied and three-winged, with a vast grey-beamed, chromium-trimmed arena in its centre. "This," boasted President Leonard, "will be America's new Temple of Agriculture...
...other day we watched two Freshmen standing on the steps of New Lecture Hall awaiting Dr. Worcester's weekly chat on What Every Harvard Man Should Know. A shiny new car droe up, bearing on its radiator cap an eye-attracting made chromium figure. The two Freshmen gazed at it a moment, then suddenly rushed down to the curb for a closer look. They peered at the statuette closely, ouriously, in apparent puzzlement. Them, with a quick beam of vadiance, "We'll ask Dr. Worcester...
...grim and gleaming monster 6 ft. 4 in. tall, the robot was brought to Manhattan by its owner-inventor-impresario, Professor Harry May of London, and installed on the fifth floor of R. H. Macy & Co.'s department store. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store officials waiting for the first demonstration. The creature had a great sullen slit of a mouth, vast protuberant eyes, shaggy curls of rolled metal...
...have been reproduced and extended in dozens of laboratories in a half-dozen countries, notably England, Italy, the U. S. Italy's Professor Enrico Fermi and his aids have coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium, copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, chromium, barium, fluorine, sodium, magnesium, titanium, zirconium, zinc, strontium, antimony, selenium, bromine...
...quiet little Pasadena, Calif, one day last week a blast almost materialized that would have shaken the sober townfolk out of their skins. Two blocks from Pasadena's busiest corner, Crown City Plating Co. electroplates chromium, gold, brass, silver, copper. A swart little man named Wallace Foreman was mixing sulphuric acid and glycerin to make an electrolyte for plating. Already in the tank were 75 gal. of acid and 2 gal. of glycerin. Thinking to add more acid, Wallace Foreman picked up a 3-gal. container, dumped in the contents. Unluckily the container held not sulphuric but nitric acid...