Word: metallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenth the price of the old. The market, however, reacted enthusiastically to a split-up which reminded traders of 1929'S happiest days. National Lead also announced 1935 earnings of $5,261,000, best since 1929, and lead prices were rising in a busy market for the metal...
...Gypsum made $3,491,000 in 1935 against $2,155,000 in 1934. As the U. S. Steel of its industry-it supplies 50% of the gypsum wall board, 50% of the gypsum plaster and 25% of the metal lath used in U. S. buildings-U. S. Gypsum is a No. 1 beneficiary of the prospective 1936 building boom. Marketeers, aware of Gypsum's bright prospects, last week valued the common at $108, about 43 times earnings...
...Inside were four bags, the weight of which convinced the agents that their search was ended. Opened, the bags revealed a treasure in the form of $20 gold pieces. For three hours the agents counted, found 10,000 coins in the Josefowitz treasure trove. At present gold prices, the metal was worth about...
Although it is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust, aluminum was not isolated until a Dane named Oersted did so in 1825, by heating the chloride with potassium. Napoleon Ill's chemist, Deville, substituted sodium for potassium, got the price of aluminum down to $34, then...
...Charles, a handsome, bright-eyed lad, was fascinated by chemistry. One day at Oberlin College he heard his chemistry professor say that fortune awaited the man who found a way to make aluminum cheaply. The story is that Charles nudged his neighbor, whispered: "I'm going after that metal." He hit on the idea of finding a solvent for the oxide ore, bauxite, then electrolyzing the solution, sending oxygen to one electrode, pure aluminum to the other. After graduation he cooked indefatigably in his back yard, trying dozens of solvents in vain. His crucibles were shaky, his batteries uncertain...