Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British Columbians were last week more optimistic than the Dominion. The Yukon's $200,000,000 spate of gold has now become a mere $100,000 yearly trickle, but chilly Yukon's 207,076 sq. mi. are rich with uncut timber, unexploited copper, lead, coal, fish, game. These resources have been landlocked by the lack of railroads, which can presumably be promoted more easily in Vancouver than in Ottawa...
Feared and hated by museum keepers the world over are those psychopaths whose muddled mentalities lead them to slash at paintings on display. Last week in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts found that 23 canvases stored in the cellar had been ripped by a slasher's knife. Soon police were able to report that this time the mutilator was no neurotic pigment-sticker, but one of the museum's own guards, piqued because his job had been liquidated. Ex-Watchman Joseph Cassidy admitted he had knifed a portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother...
...brand-new cosmic particle which the heavens rain upon the earth. It has a negative electrical charge like an electron, but seems to weigh ten times as much and have a thousand times as much energy, easily passing through four Geiger counters, two cloud chambers and seven inches of lead...
...Lead-off man in the discussion was President Colby Mitchell Chester of the National Association of Manufacturers, prime salesman of U. S. Business to the Consumer (TIME, Sept. 28). Said he: "You cannot blame Management for expecting a note of responsibility to enter into such [collective bargaining] negotiations. . . . Industry invites-yes, eagerly welcomes-Labor's co-operation in the complicated problems confronting us. But Labor needs to visualize a bit more the predicament facing Management...
Playing steadily and retrieving everything with dogged determination, Maish built up a lead of 11-2 in the final set. Here the fickle fortune of Pong turned in favor of Levin, whose wicked drives started clipping the edges of the table in unreturnable fashion. The final score...