Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When amateurs of the arts think of outstanding modern architects, the names most likely to pop into their minds are Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Miës van der Rohe. If they know of Marcel Breuer, they usually identify him as the inventor of tubular metal furniture. In the Bauhaus in 1925. 23-year-old Marcel Breuer first designed tubular steel chairs. His designs were promptly pirated and vulgarized, and being identified as a furniture designer has injured Architect Breuer ever since. Visitors last week at Harvard's Robinson Hall, where models and photographs...
...billion and a quarter in silver is approximately one million 1,000-oz. bars, each ounce worth $1.29 at the Government's statutory price, or 43? on the metal market. A thousand ounces is 62½ lb. To move a million such bars, a fleet of trucks was needed, and last week Mrs. Ross awarded her contract to Peter James Malley Jr., 38, of Manhattan, son and grandson of Irish truckers, who bid her 15? per bar for the 50-mile haul. Mr. Malley hauls most of New York City's whiskey, also dyes and chemicals. He figures...
Splitting Light. The important work which Robert Williams Wood is now doing is the manufacture of diffraction gratings. A diffraction grating is a plate of glass, metal or metal-on-glass on which a series of very fine, parallel lines are ruled close together. In combination with lenses, such a grating breaks up a beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl...
Last week, with demand and prices still falling-on the London Metal Exchange copper dipped well below the 9? figure-producers shivered, for many a mine goes into the red when copper brings less than 9? a pound. Momentary relief came at week's end when German censors, after 15 days' delay, finally released figures on the Reich's copper stocks.* With these in hand, April foreign copper statistics could at last be compiled. These showed that foreign stocks of refined copper were reduced during April from 197,470 to 185,916 tons; that world refined stocks...
...Germany dawdles over its war material figures, Japan now makes public no metal statistics at all, Russia gives out only partial data...