Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...material that will be shipped to MIT from Oak Ridge Laboratories in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is highly irradiated metal for use in tests to find a safe material for the construction of fusion reactors...
...black seem to be. The place is a continuous collage, from the ground floor workrooms-a former garage filled with stacks of the owner's working material: wood slats, newel posts, balls, balusters, a hive of infinitely replicated fragments awaiting wholeness-to the severe bedroom, with its pressed-metal industrial closets and barracks-like austerity. The collage extends into the cupboards, which, when opened, reveal a hoard of oddments and chotchkes: vanity sets, inlaid boxes, tarnished trays, ugly Edwardian candlesticks with silver frills, like the stock of a dotty junkshop owner who cannot tear to part with anything. Mere...
That fall he tackled his mountain. With Barney and another close aide, Dennis Leblanc, he began driving up from Los Angeles on weekends, carrying sandwiches in a brown bag, working all day and returning that night. They tore off the shabby side porch with its metal roof and framed in a large L-shaped veranda, the room they use the most now. The mountain air was cold that winter, and the fog sometimes so thick they could barely see out the windows. The old roof was pulled away and replaced by red-brown fiber glass tile. One day the wind...
...late January, an increase of more than $300 in less than four weeks. That same month, silver went from $39.50 per oz. to $50.35 per oz. People rushed to determine the value of their ancestral sterling silverware or gold rings, and of that was soon in the melting ovens metal dealers. The inevitable sell-off followed even more quickly than the increases. In one day alone, gold fell per oz., while silver dropped to $10.20 oz. in March...
Leading the routed silver and bulls were Bunker and Herbert Hunt, Dallas bullionaires, who at one owned an estimated 100 million oz. of silver. In March, they used their $2 silver hoard to buy even more of the metal. After the market collapsed later month, the pair had to use their vast holdings, including race horses, art and antiques, as collateral to back the loans had made in their attempt to corner world silver market. A battered Hunt later said, "A billion dollars is what it used...