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...price was $5,000 per pound. But beryllium ores are scattered widely over the world and last week the price of the metal was down to about $11. Not quite twice as heavy as water, beryllium is one of the lightest of all metals. It is a third lighter than aluminum. Chemically wedded to copper or nickel, it makes an extremely hard, tough alloy. Nickel with only 2% of beryllium in it has a tensile strength of 260,000 pounds per square inch, as against 90,000 for stainless steel. Moreover, this nickel-beryllium alloy maintains high tensile strength...
...unforeseen result of Mr. Dewey's announcement was to scare the living daylights out of Lepke. He figured he would get a lighter rap from the Federals than from zealous Mr. Dewey. Last week Lepke walked into the Federal Building accompanied by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover. As soon as news of his capture leaked out, New York City's officials...
...much peace as she could get, even at the expense of pulling her punches in Spain from 1938 on. If she joined the Allies, it might work out that she had merely balanced the European war scales; joining Germany tipped them, she could hope, to an imbalance the lighter side would not dare to challenge...
...Ninety British bombers flew over France in the second "air-raid" training exercises arranged by the British and French Air Ministries. Forty long-range Wellingtons made a 1,500-mile non-stop cruise to and from Marseille, where large crowds gathered in the streets to watch the demonstration. Lighter bombers cruised over Orleans and Paris. Not bashful were the British in pointing out that the Marseille bombers, had they veered slightly to the left, would have been over Turin, Italy's big munitions-manufacturing city, or had they taken a course directly eastward from Britain would have circled over...
...dropped, spent a year looking for a job. Warner Bros, put her under contract in 1936. Last year the Warners, envious with the rest of Hollywood of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glamorous Hedy Lamarr, started circulating glamorous photographs of Ann Sheridan, her red hair dyed a shade lighter than life, her teeth in permanent caps, her nubile curves seductively displayed. Although her most ambitious job of work since then has been an unimpressive performance in an unimpressive picture called Indianapolis Speedway, Warners' smart young West Coast publicity chief, Bob Taplinger, has made her one of movieland...