Word: ferro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferro" and Pia have been singing and murmuring to each other ever since. Married in 1941, they delighted Italy and South America with their Tosca, La Boheme and Werther, but the U.S. had only heard them sing together in concert. They ended each concert with the Duet of the Cherries from the first opera they had sung together in Palermo...
...everyone knows, said Blackett, the earth has a magnetic field, but no one has figured out why. The magnetism does not come from iron deep underground, because the earth's core is far too hot to be "ferro-magnetic." As early as 1891, physicists guessed that the magnetism might be due to some inherent property of revolving bodies. They could not prove...
...ghost-ridden Barnaby strip (in 52 papers, circ. 5,590,000) had been ghostwritten as well since the first of the year. Next week the ghosts would materialize; in place of Johnson's byline, quietly dropped several months ago, there would be two new ones: Ted Ferro and Jack Morley, Connecticut neighbors of Johnson. Ferro, at 41 an old hand at collaboration, had ground out radio serial Lorenzo Jones with his wife for nine years. Morley, a 38-year-old gag cartoonist, once did editorial cartoons for Hearst's New York Journal-American...
Johnson schooled Neighbors Ferro & Morley for months before letting PM and the syndicate in on his plans. He still sits in on story conferences-and shares in profits from the strip-but Barnaby takes little of his time. By now, says Ferro, "it's all done by telepathy." Freed from his daily grind, Johnson is writing a book about Barnaby for publication in the fall. Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley, a play adapted by Johnson and Jerome Chodorov from the strip, will open in Wilmington next week, may get to Broadway in the fall...
...tons of non-ferrous metals (aluminum, brass, other copper products), 16,600 tons of critical ferro-alloys...