Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reflected men, experiences, lessons. We see five figures going over an obstacle course together, and at the end of it they don red flannels and carry cow bells. We see a portrait, with two names under it. We hear a tinkling, and then the rapping of bits of metal as the blank yellow is dotted with significant black. We see a wooden chair with a large back, and a midget sitting in this throne of giants. We see a gracious, skillful, friendly leader sitting surrounded by functional and orderly rocks, and thereby are reminded of countless helping hands stretched...
Carefully Antonio bandaged his eyes with torn bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped...
...metal Skysedan will have a top speed of more than 160 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 140. Its 165-horsepower Continental engine will carry it 620 miles on 40 gallons of gas. Special features: a "turret-top" cabin roof for better visibility, and windshield wipers, first ever installed on a light plane...
Then the Silver bloc agreed to allow U.S. industry access to the treasure trove -for a price. Industry could buy the metal at 90? an ounce if i) the Treasury bought from producers at 90?, and 2) in two years the price of silver were raised to $1.29. As tribute to the bloc, U.S. silver users would pay an increase of about 81% for a two-year respite from the artificial shortage...
...British sovereigns and French napoleons and sell them to greedy, panicky black-market speculators. He explained: "The real brain of our association was a Greek, Georges Chou-naris [later arrested] . . . a true artist, a sort of alchemist of the Middle Ages. He combined antimony and lead, then moulded the metal and gold-plated it. Production costs were negligible. In eight months we grossed 100 million francs...