Word: iridium
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...Brooklyn, the big steel trucking door was being closed one day last week when five desperadoes rushed in, disarmed the manager, bound ten employes together with heavy rope. Two of the gunmen guarded their prisoners, the other three rifled the plant of 30 bars of silver-gold-platinum-and-iridium alloy worth $50,000, took a rifle from the wall and $200 from the cash register for good measure. Then they vanished...
...mile in diameter called Meteor Crater (TIME, March 25). Last week miners hired by Philadelphia's Daniel Moreau Barringer said that at 1,400 ft. depth they had found the main body of the meteor which made the pit. Drill- ings show 90% iron, 7% nickel, traces of iridium and platinum...
...burglar attempted to burgle the Bureau of International Weights and Measures. He was foiled by the janitor. Within the Bureau building is the Standard Metre and a number of delicate instruments and standards, all made of platinum, iridium or other precious metals...
...scientists ever assembled by any government. The business of the Bureau is to compare and test the standards of weight, length, power, heat, resistance, etc. used in American laboratories, commerce, and universities, with the official standards of the government. Here are kept under glass at even temperature the platinum-iridium bar one meter long and the kilogram of the same material on which our weights and measures are based...
Lost - Two or three weeks ago, a small iridium pointed, gold-mounted Cross stylographic pen. Finder please leave at 64 Thayer, or send address...