Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foot skeleton of a personage, seemingly female, littered with beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold alloyed with copper and some other metal, perhaps antimony, which would link the artifacts definitely with Punic work done at Carthage, on the Sahara's north edge, before its conquest by Rome in 146 B. C. The beads resembled Carthaginian work of the Fourth Century B. C. At the skeleton's ostrich-plumed head rested a six-inch...
When he came to scrutinize Nos. 60 and 62, two metallic members of the gathering, named Neodymium and Samarium respectively, he detected a presence fainty visible between them. Bringing them further out into the open-he was working with X-rays and used delicate refining methods to isolate the two metals that he wished to examine more closely-he clearly beheld this intervening shadow. It appeared in the wavelength spectra of Nos. 60 and 62 as a line that belonged to neither yet was identical in both. Forthwith, though he had no lump of new metal in his hand...
...brass bell yapped; a siren hooted like a gull. Police-chief Richard 0. Zober of Passaic in a red flivver. "Disperse that crowd!" He took a metal-covered sphere from his pocket; threw it; threw two more; gray gas sidled into the dusk. Tear bombs! . . . More bells, more hooting. A fire engine. Another. Enormous silver rods of water battered the hatless women, the men who had no overcoats. The crowd eddied, broke, swirled down the street. Policemen dashed after, clubbing backs, heads, shoulders...
...made public the conclusions of the Department of Justice as to the advisability of prosecuting the Aluminum Co. in accordance with a former complaint of the Trade Commission. That complaint charged that the Aluminum Co. had 1) delayed shipments to competitors in order to injure them, 2) furnished defective metal for the same reason, 3) discriminated among competitors and subsidiaries in fixing its prices, 4) hindered its competitors from enlarging their business. The Department of Justice declared that from its own investigation these complaints could not be shown to be true, and the evidence contradicted them...
...With reference to the Commission's charges as to delays in deliveries and defective metal shipments above referred to, the evidence is clear that the principal cooking-utensil subsidiary of the Aluminum Co. of America and a company in which it has a substantial financial interest suffered equally with other companies in this regard...