Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Make a tremendous saving in replacements where metal is exposed to the weather, as in the case of farm machinery, wire fences...
...drop of prices during June was caused chiefly by declines in farm products from 136 to 134, in food from 137 to 136, in fuel from 177 to 175, in metals and metal products from 134 to 132, in building materials from 180 to 173, in house furnishings from 173 to 172 and in miscellaneous from 112 to 111, compared with the previous month of May, 1924. On the same comparative basis, clothing remained unchanged at 187, and chemicals and drugs at 127. As between May and June last, of the 404 commodities checked, there were 137 decreases, 103 increases...
...western silvermine owners, who have been far from backward in the past in "protecting their interests" in Washington. In 1896 many silver miners supported Bryan, not because they really feared mankind was being crucified on a cross of gold, but because his doctrines meant increased sales of the white metal...
...indicated on a galvanometer. The Professor's contrivance changed failure into success. In 1921, 100 bars of bullion were recovered; in 1922, 900 bars; in 1923, 11,050 bars. Operations this season were to make a clean job of it, and salvage was small. All the precious metal that went down with the Laurentic, except for a small amount of specie, has now been recovered...
...water by the wooden hull of a flying-boat. This means rapid deterioration and the extra weight of the soaked-in water spells less carrying capacity and smaller flying range. The Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. of Keyport, N. J., is doing pioneer work replacing wooden hulls with metal duralumin. To show the Navy what his metal hulls could do, Inglis M. Uppercu, A. P. & M. President-likewise President of the Uppercu Cadillac Corporation of Manhattan, and a keen yachtsman-had one of his ships, the Morro Castle, 2nd, fly from San Juan, Porto Rico, to the docks of the Columbia...