Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...metal trade is one of the main industries in Worcester, and in it the employers are especially strongly organized; they are so strong in fact that they have just about driven the moulders' union out of business. The men of such a union might easily seek retaliation by desperate means for what seemed to them equally great injustice at the hands of their employers...
...Brewster '22, Burke Boyce '22, H. B. Cutter '21, Captain S. A. Ordway '21, and R. P. Rogers '21, all veterans of last year's squad, are showing up well and seem sure of taking part in the coming meets. Among the new men who are proving their metal are: J. S. Jablonski '23, J. K. Watson '23 and R. T. Westermark...
...Amalgamated Iron Workers of America. This organization has decided to make a demand upon owners of plants, now idle, to turn them over to the workers so they may demonstrate the value of such action. This demand is the result of wide unemployment and wage reductions among the metal workers, which according to Mr. Kelly is without reason...
...problem we have been dealing with at the Gibbs Laboratory, to which I have given a great deal of time, is that of radioactive lead. A large number of experiments of varying character have resulted in the showing that at least two kinds of lead exist: one, the ordinary metal used in our pipes and otherwise industrially throughout the world; another, a form of lead, with lower atomic weight but otherwise precisely similar, produced apparently by the decomposition of uranium. Radium has been found by others to be one of the intermediate products, and it has come to be generally...