Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spotted as a comer by big crime's talent scouts. Behind a steel-plated door in the rear of his toney haberdashery, Racketeer Mickey Cohen began to peel off $100 bills and to the bemused gaze of Wiretapper Vaus, the long green "became a diamond ring for Alice, chromium accessories for my car, a new tailor-made suit, a hand-painted tie . . ." But the highlight of Jim's criminal career was a slick trick for improving his judgment of race horses. He would cut into the direct Teletype wire between a bookie and the race track, take...
...unknown names and works. Small groups, picking favorites, quickly formed in front of Ben Shahn's Squash Court and U.S. Primitive Joseph Pickett's Manchester Valley. Contemporary U.S. abstract art proved almost too much to take. Among the sculptures, only Richard Lippold's shimmering construction of chromium and stainless-steel wires and Alexander Calder's familiar mobiles drew much appreciative comment. French artists took a hard, professional look at Jackson Pollock's chaotic drip paintings and Clyfford Still's brooding black canvas. But most Parisians, rocked by what they considered a meaningless world, gave...
Chermayeff, who said he like the concourse's spaciousness but disapproved of its architecture, is also worried about any possible replacement for it. "I suppose if they do tear it down," he said, "it will be replaced by some gargantuan monstrosity of black marble and chromium...
RUSSIA, which used to supply 25% of U.S. chromium needs and about 35% of manganese, now wants to do big business again for the first time since 1949. It is reported offering 60,000 tons of the two metals for early delivery...
...both designed by Chrysler and hand-built by Italian Bodymaker Ghia. The DeSoto is much like Chrysler's D'Elegance coupé, also hand built by Italy's Ghia, which was first shown last year-a simple, squarish grille, sweeping lines, and not too much cluttering chromium trim. But the Dodge is a brand-new car. Designed as a two-place sports car, it hugs the road like a lizard, features four headlights and a horizontal, propellerlike rub rail sweeping entirely around the car. Chrysler has no idea of mass-producing its new cars...