Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touchstone rang true metal...
John M. Larsen, importer of the famous Junker all-metal airplanes, collected $170,000 following a fire at his hangars at Central Park, L. I. He now has won his second suit against the Globe and Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. and the Commercial Union Assurance Co. The underwriters sought to recover their money on the basis of a confession of arson and conspiracy by Larsen's mechanic. But the confession extracted by detectives employed by a personal enemy of Larsen's, under threats of the application of the Mann Act, failed to impress the jury. The case aroused...
Cables. Permalloy, a new alloy oi iron and nickel, with magnetic properties hundreds of times greater than those of either metal, applied by a new process to cable manufacture, has increased the word-carrying capacity of the New York-Azores line of the Western Union Telegraph Co. 300% over similar cables. Officials of the Company believe it will revolutionize the cable industry. A trial cable, laid in deep water off Bermuda, withstood severe tests. In the new type of cable a thin layer of permalloy surrounds the copper core, under the gutta percha and wire coating on the outside...
...that would produce higher pleasure, even from the selfish point of view; than can the gratification of the desire so common among savages and barbarians, and the possessors of child minds in general, for the hanging in convenient places about the body and clothing of shiny bits of metal and stone? This joy is innocent enough, in itself, but it is so-well, primitive...
...commander had remained in touch with a naval station until 15 minutes before the disaster, when he signaled that he was drawing up his wireless aerial. Presumably the ship was struck before the completion of the maneuver. With its huge metal structure, a rigid dirigible is like a giant lightning rod furnishing the easiest and most attractive path for any electrical disturbance. Unlike the lightning rod, it cannot lead the charge safely to mother earth...