Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor's announcement, sterling shot up from $4.82? to $4.84, which is not far enough from the gold par of $4.8665 to call for any great British export of the yellow metal...
...birdie from the steps of Widener. After their care-worn faces are exposed to the negative, their lives will be imperilled in the positive. That is, the freshmen will be allowed the rare pleasure of settling old scores with the size of their largess. Silver is a heavier metal than nickel or copper and usually comes in bigger commodities. Surely the privilege of "crowning" the senior is cheap at any price...
Corrosion is an anode action, i.e., caused by a positive charge of elecricity. It was reversed by charging corroded metal negatively. A cathode or negative electric action set up in corroded objects liberated oxygen from the incrustations and brought them back to their original metallic condition. An ugly gray-green cup of Egyptian bronze rust returned to its shape of a bronze cat and kitten. Old coins revealed names and dates. A statue of Isis shed the rust of 30 centuries from necklace, hair, headdress, garments, finger-and toenails. ? Dr. Colin G. Fink, Columbia University...
Rubber-plating. The colloidal particles in the sap of the rubber tree and in artificial rubber solutions are electrically charged. It was found possible to immerse pieces of metal in a bath containing these particles, charge the metal with a current of opposite sign to the charge in the rubber, and "rubber plate" objects just as silverware is electroplated. Deposits of rubber a fifth of an inch thick were obtained. Vulcanized, the deposits were found to adhere more tightly than ever. It was predicted that fabrics could be similarly treated and the rubber-garment business revolutionized...
With half a ton of freight born aloft by its metal wings, the Maiden Dearborn, fledgling of Henry Ford's fleet of aeroplanes, made her first voyage. Rising from the ground at Dearborn, Mich., she flew, in a morning, to Chicago, unloaded and reloaded and returned to the Ford airport at Dearborn the same afternoon. Henry and Edsel Ford witnessed the plane's departure. Mrs. Henry Ford was on hand to stow the first parcel of freight in the plane. "Ultimately," said Edsel Ford, "we hope to link our plants at Chicago, at St. Louis, at St. Paul...