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Word: clinkers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks running and thus get $100 a week for 20 years-a system of payoff that gives lucky contestants a far better income tax break than winning $100,000 outright. Host and question asker will be Edgar Bergen, assisted by such wooden stooges as Charlie McCarthy, Effie Clinker and Mortimer Snerd. CBS is confident that Do You Trust Your Wife? will be right up with The $64,000 Question as an attention-getter. Newsmen who last week watched a Hollywood run-through of the new show feared that CBS might be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $100 a Week for 20 Years | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...President Holloway started following up his ideas on titanium shortly after Du Pont produced the first small batches of titanium metal in 1948. Then, as now, the best process for getting the metal out of the ore was the Kroll one, which extracts the titanium "sponge" as a clinker by using magnesium to drive it out of a solution. By 1951, Crane's researchers had improved this process to a point where Holloway was willing to gamble $2,000,000 on a pilot plant in Chicago. The plant worked so well that DMPA says Crane's method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: The Busy Plumbers | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...Clinkers & Scallops. Meanwhile, 65 feet down, his divers probed the bay floor with powerful hydraulic jet drills and huge vacuum-cleanerlike suction pumps, looking for cash but finding mostly romance. So far, they had raised what seemed to be an ancient, encrusted cannonball. It turned out to be a clinker dumped off a World War II coal ship. A piece of ancient planking turned out to be part of the town pier. Some mysterious round objects turned out to be weights from a modern fishing net. A bonanza haul of large scallops had a solid market value of three shillings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Treasure in Tobermory | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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