Word: finks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racing yachts in the world. They were racing on the Côte d' Azur last week; soon they will be racing at Manila for the Philippine Islands championship; at Honolulu, for the Hawaiian Lipton Championship. The International Championship, No. 1 event for star boats, which Edward A. Fink of Long Beach, Calif., won last summer at Southport, Conn., is sailed every year on the champion's home water; only fleet winners are eligible to compete...
Columbia's Professor Colin Garfield Fink, who gave Industry a chromium-plated shield against rust, last week took out a patent for a tungsten-plated shield...
...iron or steel objects suffices. Paint serves well in many places, as does zinc (galvanizing), tin, copper, lead, concrete. Nickel does not tarnish readily, resists corrosion, has high lustre, is hard, and has long been used to plate iron & steel. In all those qualities chromium surpasses nickel. When Professor Fink and others showed how chromium could be electroplated manufacturers quickly adopted chromium plating for electrotypes, motor car radiator shells, bumpers and other accessories, plumbing fixtures, mirrors, kitchen gear...
Uses of Dr. Fink's tungsten plate will be less ubiquitous. Its chief value lies in its resistance to hydrochloric acid. Only gold is so resistant. But gold is too precious to coat the pots and pipes of Industry. Professor Fink, 51, claims to be the "originator of the drawn tungsten filament'' for lamps.* Another scientist given the kudos is General Electric's Dr. William David Coolidge, 59. In 1914 the American Academy of Arts & Sciences gave Dr. Coolidge its prized Rumford Medal for the ''invention and applications of ductile tungsten." Dr. Coolidge also...
...Oklahoma," said Clubfounder Volney T. Hoggatt of Denver. The Ornery Men's Club was organized in 1900 in the late Sports Promoter George L.("Tex") Rickard's saloon at Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness. Prominent in an alleged membership of 400,000 are Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph...