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...betting all his money on it. His company has set up a separate department of industrial development to invest in a whole new series of strategic metals. Climax owns thorium deposits in Colo rado, wants to expand into large-scale production of such other vital metals as nickel, cobalt and manganese, all needed for U.S. strategic stockpiles...
...Cobalt & Madder. The society's earliest projects were on the modest side. Its first decision was to set up a series of prizes I) "for the best quantity (not less than 20 Ibs.) of cobalt produced in this country, 2) for raising and curing not less than 20 Ibs. of madder,* 3) for the best drawing by a child under 14 years of age, and 4) for the best drawing by a child between 14 and 17." But before long, the society was attacking such problems as sheep diseases, the making of rosin, the growing of potatoes. Meanwhile...
Tough Alloy. "Elgiloy," a tough, cobalt-base alloy developed by Elgin National Watch Co. and Battelle Memorial Institute for rustproof and breakproof watch springs, is now on the market. Possible uses: fountain-pen nibs, valves, dental equipment, aircraft instruments and bearings...
...week, housewives and bookworms were combing their dusty shelves for copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Hopalong Cassidy Comics. Reason: the lady and the cowboy, together with a rapidly mounting list of other books considered offensive by the government, were suddenly hotter than a chunk of radioactive cobalt. By a neat change of phrase in the law that formerly merely prohibited the sale of such books (penalty: $600), Interior Minister Theophilus Dönges had made it a crime even to possess them. Standing dusty and unused on a forgotten bookshelf, a copy of Stuart Cloete...
...English collector 21 years later. Both were magnificent pieces, devout scenes of Christ under the burden of the cross and accepting the fatal kiss from Judas. But Sassetta's Agony in the Garden, in brilliant gold leaf, soft roses and browns with a rosy-cheeked angel under a cobalt-blue sky, was the handsomest of the three-and the hardest to get. It belonged to an English noblewoman named Lady Mary Catherine Ashburnham, who guarded it jealously in her private gallery, rarely let anyone see the picture, much less talk of buying...