Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles west of Hafar-el-Ats, the U.S. presented Ibn Saud's Arabia with another, even more persuasive Lend-Lease cargo. At sweaty, sultry Jidda on the Red Sea, where legend has buried Eve and the main road runs to Mecca, an American freighter unloaded 7,000,000 silver coins (riyals), minted in Philadelphia and valued...
...Robert I. Miller might have been a standard heroine of woman's magazine fiction. At 42, she was childless, energetic, still handsome in a full-blown silver-blond fashion, and married to a man 25 years her senior. She was all nerves. Since her husband was one of Washington's most successful criminal lawyers, she yearned for a suburban home in fashionable Chevy Chase, Md. But Robert Ingersoll Miller, 67, onetime law partner of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, good friend of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, preferred to stay in the drab Victorian brown-brick house...
...observed by Manhattan Columnist Lucius Beebe "bolting" from the Blue for the 5:31 train to his Rosemont (NJ.) "Paul Whiteman Walking Horse Farm." There, noted Beebe, Whiteman keeps 150 pipes, 100 suits, 75 pairs of "costly, hand-tooled" town shoes, 24 pairs of riding boots, 15 saddles (one silver-mounted), one dozen staticless radios, enough phonograph records to make the planning of a disk-house no idle talk...
...smelts were transplanted to Michigan's Crystal Lake in 1912 as food for salmon. The salmon unaccountably disappeared, but the smelts thrived, soon spread through the Great Lakes. In Huron and Michigan fishermen dipping for bigger fish found them a nuisance. Developed into a popular table delicacy, the silver smelts became a big industry in the past decade; prices jumped from ½ to 4? a Ib. This year OPA had counted on smelts for 10,000,000 Ib. of food...
...singlehandedly" wiping out a machine-gun nest in Italy, a dog named Chips was awarded the D.S.C., the Silver Star and the Purple Heart (TIME, Nov. 22, Jan. 24). Last week this impressive sweep of medals appeared likely to stand in the records for a long time, maybe forever...