Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aichi torpedo plant, shook his head, said with Nagoya's curious local pride: "We had almost 25,000 workers here. In five minutes, nothing was left. No factory in Japan was so beautifully bombed." The Aichi plant, which was 95% destroyed, is being sold for scrap metal to anyone that will carry it away. Youngish Toshio Takahashi, the plant manager, says softly: "It still seems like a dream to see all this. I suppose we should tear it down quickly, but that would cost too much money...
...camp site of one of the early tribes has now come to light in Wyoming. In 1939 Jimmy Allen, sheet-metal worker and amateur archeologist of Cody, found an arrowhead near a creek bank. He made a note of the place, but did not return until the summer of last year, when he found an odd-looking bone sticking out of the dry dirt. He confided in Dr. Glenn L. Jepsen, Princeton professor of paleontology, who was deep in some digging of his own at Polecat Bench a few miles away. The professor was delighted: old bones associated with arrowheads...
...silver had been turned over to a notorious smuggler named Roberto Maese, who moved it across the border to El Paso. Each deal had at least two profitable angles: 1) it evaded the export tax; 2) the bank sent out old-style silver pesos, whose metal value is now higher than the face value, and replaced them in its own accounts with paper money...
Gallup Independent to learn the business, later became editor of a crusading political weekly. There he got in the habit of carrying type metal wrapped in a handkerchief to defend himself...
Gallup Independent to learn the business, later became editor of a crusading political weekly. There he got in the habit of carrying type metal wrapped in a handkerchief to defend himself...