Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experimenters made their discovery (all but the alloy formula) public for the first time. They had, said they, laid Crodon plating on copper, brass, and steel articles with notable success. The surfaces obtained were persistently lustrous, seemed never to need polishing, were almost as cheap to lay on as nickel, had 20 times the life of zinc. They resisted heat as well as electro-corrosion* and acids. They would be found valuable when applied to milled utensils (golf clubs, surgical instruments) that have now to be made of intractable alloys to render them long-wearing and stainless...
...domestic business, the railroads continue to occupy the limelight. Mergers abound, and still more are projected. When and if the Interstate Commerce Commission approves the Nickel Plate consolidation now before it (TIME, Aug. 11, 18, Apr. 6, 27), many of these tentative and private rail merger plans will probably be rushed to completion...
Pennsylvania R. R. is by no means to be forgotten, even if the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate has enjoyed most of the limelight. The Nickel Plate was quite anxious to acquire the Virginian R. R., and neither the New York Central nor the Baltimore & Ohio would have wept bitter tears at being asked to take it over...
...from the steps of Widener. After their care-worn faces are exposed to the negative, their lives will be imperilled in the positive. That is, the freshmen will be allowed the rare pleasure of settling old scores with the size of their largess. Silver is a heavier metal than nickel or copper and usually comes in bigger commodities. Surely the privilege of "crowning" the senior is cheap at any price...
...latter that Thomas C Powell, Erie Vice President and star witness for the merger promoters, apparently aimed his telling testimony, order to prove that the merger would increase competition rather than monopolize, he pointed out that the new Nickel Plate will touch 28 cities of over 75,000 population, whose aggregate population is 17465,000. The similar figures for rival and competing systems are: New York Central, 30 such cities with 17,655,000 total population; B. & U., 1 cities with 17,266,000; and Pennsylvania, 35 cities with 19,876,000. The implication was that the Pennsylvania was already...