Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been prompted by half a dozen recent oil, gas and metal strikes, notably the spectacular copper, zinc and silver find by Texas Gulf Sulphur near Timmins. Ont. More than 1,000 prospectors have staked 8,000 claims, some as far as 65 miles from the strike site. Texas Gulf Sulphur will spend $20 million to develop its Timmins properties, and such Canadian firms as Noranda Mines, Hudson's Bay and Consolidated Mining together have raised their exploration budgets in the area by $10 million. International Nickel put 30 surveyors to work, some in helicopters, and even staked more than...
Cars spun along the strip, crashed, smashed, shattered, splintered, and stopped in a downpour of metal and glass. It looked like Indianapolis all over again, but the site was East Haddam, Conn., the event no sport but an experiment in automobile survival staged by the state police department to prove its contention that small cars are more vulnerable than standard models...
...pains, Atahualpa was strangled.) Indifferently, the Spaniards melted art into bullion; their pillage increased Europe's gold supply by 20%, part of which went to finance the ill-fated Armada. To the modern world, pre-Columbian gold again has great value apart from its content as metal: its artistic worth...
...exhibits at the fair, it shows how pre-Columbian goldsmiths of America beat, hammered and cast little miracles of design. For motifs they used the swamp and sea creatures that they knew best-the frog, snake, shark, turtle, crab and crocodile. These ancient masters also made the malleable metal wriggle with curvilinear life: 2-in.-thick ear plugs, nose pendants, golden mustachios that covered the mouth. They drank from gold goblets and spangled themselves with baubles that were hinged to bounce in the light. They abstracted condors into broadtailed triangles and sought symmetry in two-headed animals...
...Stanford economics graduate (B.A., '34), Lewis started as a metal cutter at Lockheed, rose during the war to boss of sales but quit in 1947 to join Canadair, a General Dynamics subsidiary. He was an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force when Pan American World Airways President Juan Trippe hired him in 1955 as an executive vice president. When he left Pan Am to join General Dynamics, he not only gave up an odds-on chance to succeed Trippe some day but made a tremendous financial sacrifice: he forfeited stock options that by now would have brought...