Word: clays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devised a system of FLASH quotations for use whenever the ticker got five minutes behind. Last week it had a chance to use it for the first time. FLASH-X (U. S. Steel) 49⅞. FLASH-A (Anaconda Copper) 28. FLASH-T (American Tel & Tel) 140½. When the clay's closing bell bonged, brokers had enjoyed the first million-share day since May, Dow-Jones industrial averages were up a thumping five points to 118.6 (1938 low: 98.95; 1937 high...
After digging out the basin for a pond, the Stone Age people lined it with straw, then covered the straw with a layer of clay. This furnished the necessary insulation. Some present-day English builders are reputedly able to make successful dew ponds, but they generally use concrete instead of straw and clay. Moreover, after construction, these modern ponds have to be filled with water first in order to keep going. Whether the ponds of the ancients filled up by natural accumulation of water, starting from a dry basin, no one knows...
...skeleton is in stratified clay of an ancient glacial lake. This poor girl, whose teeth are quite projecting, was drowned in the waters of this lake over 20,000,000 years ago. A dagger is beside her body. This may be the first great American tragedy...
Trees, Some 8% of the earth's crust is made of aluminum (an ingredient of all clay), but only a small portion of it is extractable. A 24-square-mile area in Arkansas is the chief U. S. source of bauxite, from which aluminum is commercially derived. Mr. Rice says Alcoa controls 19? square miles of this supply, and also has vast foreign holdings. U. S. aluminum is made under the Hall and the Bradley processes. Alcoa got ownership of both patents around the turn of the century; then, realizing that when the patents expired it would no longer...
Last year, while grey-haired Carl Milles worked serenely in his three Cranbrook studios, pictures of his first clay models for the Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri were published in LIFE. Francis D. Healy, elderly chairman of St. Louis's Municipal Art Commission, saw them and snorted that the fountain would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony" (TIME, Aug. 9). For Sculptor Milles' wave-naked Tritons, Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, suggested trousers. Finally the Star-Times took a poll of public opinion, found plenty of people who agreed with the two indignant commissioners...