Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Countermeasures. Victorious, Little Orvie mounted a chair outside his office on election night and waved to a cheering crowd of 400 fans. He introduced his wife ("you see she's not all beat up"), his platinum-blonde daughter Nancy ("the member of the family who dyes her hair") and his eight-year-old son Henry Ford Hubbard ("I named him that because I wanted to show I had nothing against the Fords...
Died. Robert Crooks Stanley, 74, board chairman and longtime president (1922-50) of the International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., world's biggest producer of nickel and platinum, one of the biggest producers of copper; of a heart attack; on Staten Island, N.Y. Mining Engineer Stanley discovered Monel metal, widely used industrial alloy, helped develop the famed Nipissing (cobalt) mine. In World War II, International Nickel delivered to the Allies 1,500,000,000 Ibs. of nickel and 1,750,000,000 Ibs. of copper...
...tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.* Boyd, an Ohio-born laborer's son, went to California in 1915 because he yearned for money, fame, pretty girls and fun. He was a husky, handsome, good-natured youth with wavy platinum hair, and he hoped the motion-picture business would provide all. It did. He married a Boston heiress, whom he met while toiling as the chauffeur of a for-hire car; when divorce ended the union a year and a half later, he had accumulated such a handsome wardrobe that Producer...
Divorced. By Gladys George, 45, platinum-blonde actress of stage (Personal Appearance) and screen (Madame X): Kenneth C. Bradley, 36, Los Angeles bellhop, her fourth husband; after 3½ years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Blending powdered quartz, magnesite and bauxite, the bureaumen added a crystallizing agent (fluorosilicate compound) and melted the ingredients in a platinum-lined crucible at nearly 2,500° F. As the furnace cooled, mica sheets grew from tiny "seed crystals" at the coneshaped bottom of the crucible. Because crucibles lined with carbon or ceramic failed to do the trick, the bureau scientists used expensive platinum, hope to reduce costs by melting down the metal and reusing it time & again...