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Word: metalic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Study of a new type of construction?hollow metal body with curved side extensions replacing distinct wings?has led German engineers to predict ships of 150 tons, 20,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skies of Germany | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...GOLD. The rush and scrabble for some of the $78,000 lode struck lately at Weepah, down near the slanting California lino (TIME, March 21), continued last week to swell and assume bright color. Blizzards and gales that swept Weepah tenters down the canon, did not cool the yellow metal fever. Nearby Tonopah, base camp for the skirmishers, buzzed with brokers, show girls, sour-doughs, eager tourists. Buying and selling of mine shares was fast and furious, all in cash. Claims changed hands. The biggest price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: Yellow Fever | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...first promoters and engineers in the coal-and-iron-studded mountains that were to make Birmingham the first industrial city of the South. The Age-Herald gave its encouragement to the early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap pig iron to northern manufacturers. The U. S. Steel Corp. put George Gordon Crawford in as 38-year-old president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. with the cheery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Chapter Heading | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...frivolous and utterly fascinating visitors, and to a scholastic monastery they bring the charming graces of femininity. The ideas of March are here and with them the anachronistic April hours, but even such dark events as these must give way to the regiment of women. Lesser problems, such as Metal physical poetry, the Critique of Pure Reason and economic involutions, yield to greater what are her favorite flowers, and will there be a moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTLEMEN PBEFER BOTH | 3/18/1927 | See Source »

...Alien Property Custodian, Mr. Miller returned $7,000,000 worth of stock in the American Metal Co., which had been seized by the U. S. during the World War, to the original German owners. This transaction was speeded up with a $441,000 bribe, of which Mr. Miller received $50,000. Mr. Daugherty, John T. King and Jesse W. Smith were supposed to have shared the remaining $391,000. Messrs. King and Smith are now dead; Mr. Daugherty is free. Notwithstanding Lawyer Sapiro, many say that Mr. Miller is the "goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: One Blind, One Coated | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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