Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alone, neither hydrochloric nor nitric acid will dissolve the "noble metals" gold and platinum, but a mixture of the two will. So to this potent corrosive the medieval alchemists gave the name aqua regia-royal water. Last week in Brooklyn, fumes from royal water knocked out scores of factory workers and firemen. left several in hospitals, threatened with severe aftereffects...
Lead Shields. Chicago-born Emil Herman Grubbe got through Valparaiso (Ind.) University at 20, mined platinum in Idaho, and began using the metal in his vacuum tubes. He was teaching chemistry and studying medicine at Chicago's Hahnemann Medical College (a homeopathic school, now defunct). There, three weeks after word of Roentgen's work got out. Grubbe displayed his burned left hand at a faculty meeting. A doctor suggested that anything capable of causing such a reaction in healthy tissue might be used in treating diseased tissue. Another doctor promptly referred a woman with breast cancer to Grubbe...
Trembling with fatigue from the top of her platinum-blonde hair to the tips of her dainty little (size 5) shoes, the onetime idol of 2,000,000 G.I.s faced newspaper photographers one night last week in a cramped backstage office of Manhattan's garish Latin Quarter. "Let's have a leg shot, Betty," shouted a cameraman, and gamely she snaked out one of the most celebrated gams this side of Marlene Dietrich. "Spread open your dressing gown," snapped one photographer. "You look like you only...
They arrived hot and tired, shedding platinum mink stoles and loosening neckties. Shoulders sagged under three cameras (black-and-white, color, movies). Hand baggage bulged with lotions, nostrums, Doctor Zhivago and Around the World with Auntie Mame...
...familiar in the world's famed theaters and nightclubs and on U.S. TV as his husky voice. Instead of riding the IRT, Belafonte now has his choice of two Mercedes-Benzes; to the subway girl, who was his first wife, he was able to give a $10,000 platinum bracelet as a "divorce present" when their marriage broke up in 1957. Each of the seven albums he has recorded (for RCA Victor) has sold more than 200,000 copies, and one (Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean) became the first LP by a single performer to sell more than...