Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passionate partisans, the phonograph needle is as bellicausal a topic as that needle of the medieval theologians on which angels might or might not throng to dance. Every variety of phonograph needle -vegetable (fibre, thorn), metal (steel, brass, chromium, etc.), mineral (sapphire) -has had its champions. Meantime, most people keep on buying steel needles. Last year 750,384,450 needles were sold in the U. S. Last week Philco Radio & Television Corp. needled the phonograph industry with its first basic change since electrical reproduction (1925). Philco put on sale a machine ($129.95 to $395) with a built-in needle intended...
Samuel Hood Dolbear, globe-trotting mining engineer. His job: chromium specialist...
...Egyptian mosques preachers exhorted Moslems to prepare for a "Jihad" (a Holy War) to help the Allied cause. On the desert near Cairo, Indian Moslems labored with great care to lay out "prayer grounds" decorated with chromium-plated bottle caps, which for them carried a significance no less solemn than Westminster Abbey's altar...
...Patent Office in Washington remembers a story about a patent examiner who, in 1870, got discouraged. In 1870 there were no automobiles, airplanes, streamlined trains, steam turbines, oil-burning ships or Diesel engines; no movies, radio, television, electric refrigeration, vacuum cleaners, air conditioning; no rayon, nylon, Cellophane, stainless steel, chromium plate; no linotypes, color photography, wirephotos; not even a decent golf ball. Nevertheless the discouraged examiner looked around, decided that everything of importance had been invented, quit his job to look for something permanent...
...structures planned by most modernists have run not to flesh but bone. Pleased, therefore, were many lay visitors to "Versus" to note that the trend is away from chromium, away from bony angles, toward solid design and comfort...