Word: half-dollars
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...shines through thick steel castings as if they were made of ice. But it will do other, even more interesting things. A silver half-dollar, for instance, held briefly in its beam, becomes dangerously radioactive. The rays knock neutrons out of silver atoms, turning them into an unstable silver isotope, which breaks down into cadmium, giving off powerful streams of electrons. Some silver, too, is turned into palladium, while some of the copper in the coin's alloy is turned into atoms of nickel.* The betatron is controlled from a neighboring room...
...than half the total comes from bowling. Particularly profitable is steady replacement business in pins, balls, other accessories. Hence the alley promotion campaign was logical. Chief form of promotion known to the old regime was to subsidize nearly all top bowling and billiard* players. The new, having found these hirelings expensive and unproductive, retains only a few, makes them work for their pay. One of the few: Trick Billiardist Charley Peterson, who has lectured on billiards at Harvard, whose business card reads "show me a shot I can't make." Sample Peterson shot: standing a half-dollar...
...good fortune to be adopted by an affectionate couple in Kaukauna, Wis. His foster mother was as stage-struck as he, and when he had not earned his way into the Opera House by sticking up posters for a touring troupe, she usually could lay hands on a half-dollar to buy them both gallery seats. He won a scholarship to a dramatic school in Chicago, began a professional career which often reduced him to one stew a day, stranded him once as far north as Alaska...
...perhaps you prefer Bostonianism strictly modern. Then have you tried a "dollar hop" at the East Boston Airport? You can hop for fifty cents at another one, but most people would prefer to spend the extra half-dollar. Saturday afternoons the Army planes go up, and Sunday afternoons the others, and there are always passenger planes coming in or taking off. Sunday afternoons during the summer there is sometimes a special program, and in any case a flight, or even the sight of others trying it, is a certain cure for boredom...
...long-anticipated ceremony in St. Petersburg, Fla. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, near-beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees, conferred with his most celebrated employe, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth. After much palaver and publicity, Ruth signed a one-year contract for $75,000. Then he tossed a half-dollar into an imitation Spanish wishing well and went to play in a practice game against the Boston Braves, in which he failed to make...