Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action in revictualing the besieged, and bombing and machine-gunning the hordes of rebels. Planes left every day from the base at Diredawa, 200 miles away, and supplied the men with a total of 130 tons of supplies, nine tons of munitions and 88,000 thalers [$47,000 in silver coin]. At the same time they dropped abundant quantities of bombs on the enemy, who were trying to close in on the besieged...
Clackety-clack, clackety-clack! The train was moaning down the line now, headed for New London. They fairly sailed past the little old abandoned way-stations on the line, streaking into Connecticut and full view of the Sound. The water looked lovely today, all blue, with silver around the edges. From Stonington he looked across to Fishers Island, saw the great clubhouse standing out like a white elephant on the opposite shore. That was the house where they'd moved that girls' school a few years ago after its fire. It must be nice to be a schoolgirl, he thought...
...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...
...Figure Skater Sonja Henie's third motion picture, makes it clear that Producer Darryl Zanuck must soon find some other way of keeping Miss Henie's films fresh than by putting them on ice. To give Sonja presentable, even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate circuit...
...Cooks$37.00 Butchers 32.00 General Cooks 30.00 Pantry Stewards 30.00 Vegetable Cooks 26.00 Kitchen Men 22.00 Short Order Cooks 20.00 Counter Men 20.00 Pot Washers 20.00 Store Men 20.00 Salad Men 20.00 Truckmen 17.00 Porters 17.00 Dish Men 17.00 Bus Boys 17.00 Waitresses 14.00 Pantry Women 14.00 Glass and Silver...