Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RUSSIAN feelers to reopen East-West trade in platinum are getting a chilly reception. Last week in London, the Soviet Trade Delegation offered to sell platinum for the first time since 1947, but found no takers. London dealers, who usually sell platinum to the U.S., were afraid to touch...
Married. Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52, motor millionaire; and Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 29, platinum blonde ex-showgirl; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his mother's 75-room seaside mansion in Palm Beach...
...bomb was conducted in New Mexico (with '49', '94-239'). The bomb dropped on Japan was made of uranium 235. It is known that the output of uranium 235 amounts to 400 grams daily at the magnetic separation plant at Clinton . . . Alek handed us a platinum with 162 micrograms of uranium 233 in the form of oxide in a thin lamina." Zabotin told Moscow that in London Alek would be working at King's College and arranged for him to be met on the street in front of the British Museum...
...stories: The Gift of the Magi (0. Henry's most popular story) about a poor bookkeeper (Farley Granger) who sells his gold watch to buy a set of jeweled combs for his wife (Jeanne Grain) for Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...
...windowless hideaway between the first and second floors was the "treasury." An officer flung open box after box of diamonds, rubies, emeralds and platinum brooches. "Like Woolworth's," said a correspondent, "except it's not glass...