Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will not use or carry away the metallic meteorites which have been found in abundance in and near the crater. These fragments, ranging from a few ounces to 1,400 lb., constitute the majority of the metallic meteorites recovered anywhere in the world. They show about 92% iron, 6% nickel, 2% of other matter, and this is taken by scientists as a fair sample of the main body...
...design of any U. S. coin may be changed after 25 years. Because the buffalo-Indian head nickel will be 25 years old on February 21, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau last week announced that the Mint would coin no more after that date. A jury composed of Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross and three sculptors-Sidney Waugh, Albert Stewart and Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse...
...fifty-five metallic groups, only fifteen have been extensively utilized utilized. From ancient times, gold, silver, Iron, copper, tin, zinc, lead, and mercury have been used. And within recent years the aluminum, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, and nickel groups have also found uses...
...laboratories working on the problem of imitating natural photosynthesis have tried other catalysts, but none works so efficiently as chlorophyll. Some ten years ago at the University of Liverpool, Professor Edward Charles Cyril Baly obtained formaldehyde, sugar and starch from carbon dioxide, water and artificial white light, using nickel oxide as a catalyst, but in tiny quantities and at low efficiencies...
...Manhattan as the Automat itself, came to a sudden end last week after five uproarious months. The strike was called last August by two unions, Bakery Workers and Cafeteria Employes, after they lost a collective bargaining election. Less than 500 of the 5,600 employes of the Horn & Hardart nickel-in-the-slot restaurant chain walked out, but what they lacked in numbers was more than made up in zeal. For the dispute soon boiled down to old-fashioned police-baiting. Immediate issue was the right of the police to limit the number of pickets. Total arrests ran above...