Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shaving Tackle. Not forgetting its pedestrian readers the Guardian reported: "The most striking exhibit, from the hiker's point of view, is an 'ultra-lightweight week-end kit,' comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...
...equipped newshawk is prepared to snap the unexpected. Also he has a distinct advantage of entreé. A hostile subject who has thawed to a reporter's interview may let him snap a picture, although he would freeze again at sight of a photographer's tripod and plate-box. In many cases the cameraman, boldly marked with the badge of his trade, is barred at gates where the newsman, with camera concealed, may saunter in. As Jack Price says: "Nowadays a reporter can still carry his cane and have a camera tucked in his pocket." The adventures...
...chromium. But for a multitude of uses a coating over the iron or steel objects suffices. Paint serves well in many places, as does zinc (galvanizing), tin, copper, lead, concrete. Nickel does not tarnish readily, resists corrosion, has high lustre, is hard, and has long been used to plate iron & steel. In all those qualities chromium surpasses nickel. When Professor Fink and others showed how chromium could be electroplated manufacturers quickly adopted chromium plating for electrotypes, motor car radiator shells, bumpers and other accessories, plumbing fixtures, mirrors, kitchen gear...
Uses of Dr. Fink's tungsten plate will be less ubiquitous. Its chief value lies in its resistance to hydrochloric acid. Only gold is so resistant. But gold is too precious to coat the pots and pipes of Industry. Professor Fink, 51, claims to be the "originator of the drawn tungsten filament'' for lamps.* Another scientist given the kudos is General Electric's Dr. William David Coolidge, 59. In 1914 the American Academy of Arts & Sciences gave Dr. Coolidge its prized Rumford Medal for the ''invention and applications of ductile tungsten." Dr. Coolidge also...
...receivership and reorganization of the Nickel Plate occurs it is likely that the only way common stockholders can retain control is through an assessment. Last February control of the Nickel Plate was shifted under option from Alleghany Corp., loaded down with bank loans, to Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, which at the end of last year had $11,000,000 in cash and cash deposits. Despite the Nickel Plate's situation, its common shares sold last week at $5, indicating most people thought the stock would not be wiped out, that the "Vans" could patch up their pyramid. And announcement of their...