Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mountain. Dr. Zinn got the idea from Father Roger Aull, 61-year-old retired Passionist priest who lives in the mountains near Silver City. Father Aull once had an abscessed lung which got well after chlorine treatments. Father Aull had studied medicine before entering the priesthood; he bought a machine that would make safe, weak chlorine gas from salt water, and gave the treatments to others. In spite of clerical and medical criticism, he has been doing it for some ten years. Most doctors regard a chlorine treatment as hocuspocus: no one has explained how it can possibly act against...
People in Town. Nobody knows how big Tombstone was in the early '80s, when silver mining was at its height. Some say 12,000. By 1940, the population was down to 800. The citizens mined a little, published the weekly Epitaph, lived mostly in the past, lolling against the boarded-up false fronts. A few were guides who showed visitors around the adobe Bird Cage Theater museum (tour: 25^), a combined variety house, saloon, gambling house and brothel, where Sheriff John H. Behan and friends used to sit on the right and Marshal Wyatt Earp (who wanted...
...shines through thick steel castings as if they were made of ice. But it will do other, even more interesting things. A silver half-dollar, for instance, held briefly in its beam, becomes dangerously radioactive. The rays knock neutrons out of silver atoms, turning them into an unstable silver isotope, which breaks down into cadmium, giving off powerful streams of electrons. Some silver, too, is turned into palladium, while some of the copper in the coin's alloy is turned into atoms of nickel.* The betatron is controlled from a neighboring room...
Died. Newell Converse Wyeth, 62, onetime star pupil of Illustrator Howard Pyle and a famed mural painter and book illustrator in his own right, whose colorful, romantic depictions have given many Americans their conceptions of such fictional and legendary figures as Long John Silver, Deerslayer and Odysseus; in a grade-crossing accident near Chadds Ford, Pa., in which his three-year-old grandson was also killed...
...shortage, by selling the units to private builders who agree to: 1) demolish the units and move them from present sites; 2) use some of the salvaged material for entirely new houses. FPHA will show the method of recovery at a 20-acre "showcase" exhibit to be erected at Silver Springs, Md., in mid-December...