Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple spent most of their time in Britain, where they lived in lush disregard for austerity. The Maharaja lengthened his fabulous string of race horses (estimated to be worth $1,000,000), built a chromium-studded training establishment atop Warren Hill, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire (despite local indignation over this use of scarce building materials...
...boys in Doc Evans' jazz band blew a final chord and then drifted from the stand for an intermission smoke. As the jump fans settled down to their beers, a stooped and droopy-eyed old Negro clambered up to the piano behind the chromium bar. He began a rolling boogie bass -not fast and tinny like most boogie, but low and underneath the deep, dark blues his right hand played. He played softly, staring out into the blue smoke as if he didn't care whether anyone listened. Not everyone did. But the oldtimers around Chicago...
...supplied as outright grants or as loans (through funds supplied to the Export-Import Bank) according to each nation's ability to repay. One possible asset for the U.S.: a chance to get and stockpile such critical raw materials as tin, natural rubber, industrial diamonds, quinine, manganese, chromium, copper, lead, zinc...
...performers on the vocal high wire and trapeze are utterly devoid of musical interest to me." O'Connell attacks Lily ("The Pons That Depresses") and husband André Kostelanetz with a waspish malice that a few, backhanded compliments fail to soften. He dislikes their "hand-decorated and chromium-plated" music, inveighs against their commercialism, even gossips that Lily's high heels are designed "to distract the eye from rather generous dimensions in the horizontal planes...
Ordinary sapphires and rubies are clear crystals of aluminum oxide (A12O2). The colors come from small amounts of such elements as chromium or iron. For years, both gems have been manufactured (without the stars) by passing finely powdered A12O2 through the flame of an oxyhydrogen blowpipe. The tiny particles melt and then solidify into a crystalline blob just beyond the flame. Such crystals have all the beauty, color, hardness and other desirable properties of natural gems. When they are well made, their "falsity" can be detected only by an expert who looks (with a microscope) for their slightly curving "growth...