Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gone with her father, Shadrach, to California of the '50s. Happy the man, indeed! It took a staunch lad to go that journey, but Guy went it, by Panama. For months he roamed the roaring, gold-dusted country asking the cream and scum of 40 nations, not for metal or favors, but for word of her. No woman stayed him though he succored one, a young Italienne with a snakeskin headband, quite mad with working her blind father's claim...
...Program. General Bonzani, Italian Undersecretary for Aviation, announced last week that Italy now possesses 800 "front line combat airplanes,"* and that "the Department of Italian Industry is making satisfactory progress on 600 new planes, 250 of which will be of all-metal construction of the most recent type...
...past harbor tugs, slow tramps and barges at an eight-knot clip. His guests scrutinized the Baden-Baden's two whirling towers of iron, 65 feet high and ten feet through, and tried to realize that, according to the Magnus principle, the quartering wind that struck the cylindrical metal sails created suction on their surfaces, the suction being greatest on the forward surfaces when they were rotated "into the wind" - i.e., clockwise for a starboard breeze, counterclockwise for a larboard. By proper reversals of the rotors, the ship was easily made to tack and maneuver...
...hammer, which consists of a metal ball attached to wire handle, four feet overall in length and weighing 16 pounds, has been held in this meet since 1877. The hammer is thrown from a seven foot circle, in which the competitor is restrained to his fair throws. From its inception to 1891 a wooden handle was used. The wire handle, with its double or single grip, proved a great improvement over the old style hammer and really revolutionized the event...
...grand jury indicted one time Attorney General Harry Daugherty, his good friend, the late Jesse Smith, John T. King, onetime Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, and Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. The charge was that certain stock of the American Metal Co. was seized by the Alien Property Custodian as German property during the War, that the stock was sold for some $7,000,000, and that in 1921 a Swiss corporation, really a blind for the German owners, recovered the money from the U. S. Government with the connivance...