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...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...
Louis Armstrong had forsaken the ways of Mammon and come back to jazz. Shorn of his big (19-piece), brassy, ear-splitting commercial band (TIME, April 29, 1946), he was as happy as a five-year-old with his curls cut off. Billy Berg's neon & chromium Los Angeles jazz temple wasn't big enough to hold the faithful who thronged to welcome him back...
Peggy Guggenheim, copper-rich patroness of the arts and collector of artists, was out two dreamlike paintings, an abstract sculpture and a utilitarian gewgaw. Incredibly stolen from her art gallery: Flat Landscape and Child of the Mountain by Paul Klee, an untitled chromium relief by Hans Arp, and a fancy bottle top wrought by Author Laurence Vail, her first husband...