Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week a new all-metal, twin-motored monoplane, bright with red, white & blue Air Corps paint, was rolled out on the runway at Los Angeles' Municipal Airport. From a distance grease monkeys and pilots rubbered at her sleek, narrow fuselage, her one-seat pilot cabin, her tricycle landing gear. To trained ears the roar of her motors indicated an unusual concentration of horsepower...
...broke his arm while throwing a cricket ball. Dr. Groves cut and shaped two pieces of beef-bone, scraped out some marrow in each end of the boy's broken humerus, drove one piece of beef-bone up the humerus, the other down, and joined them together with metal bolts. The boy recovered in six weeks and within ten years the beef-bone was almost entirely absorbed in new bone tissue which had grown around it. The metal bolts remained embedded in the bone but did no harm. "By a curious chance," said Dr. Groves, "[the boy] became...
...seven: Columbia Conserve Co.: Nunn-Bush Shoe Co.; Welsh Co. (St. Louis baby carriage manufacturer): Berkshire Knitting Mills; Northwest Metal Products Co.: Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.; Western States Envelope...
...President extended to June 30 the Government's silver subsidy, whereby it pays 64.64? per troy ounce for new-mined U. S. metal (world price...
Fortnight ago the Journal of the A. M. A. printed Dr. Matz's conclusions. He found that: 1) almost 40% of the cancer victims had been engaged in occupations which irritated their lungs, such as certain types of mining and metal grinding; 2) almost 60% of the patients had suffered from influenza or pneumonia before the onset of cancer...