Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When war came, Dow Chemical Co. was the only domestic producer pouring the silver-white ingots in any quantity. Probably the Dow process, chemically and electrically cajoling the metal from Michigan brine wells and Texas sea water (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), bulks largest in the new increased capacity. But in recent months new producers using other processes have swelled the total. Some use variations of the Dow method to recover magnesium from waste liquors of ammonia soda and. potash manufacture. Others are for the first time commercially smelting the widespread U.S. magnesium ores...
Dorothy Lamour won an engraved silver police whistle and a new title: The Girl Most Likely To Be Whistled At In 1943. Donor of whistle and title: The Southern California Chapter of the Whistling Teachers Institute of America...
...most ornamental race track. Snuggling at the foot of the snow-capped Sierra Madre Mountains, Sloan's dream track will have a three-tiered grandstand, four-tiered clubhouse with betting windows and cocktail bars on each level and a super-gaudy ballroom with a black marble floor, silver walls and shell-pink ceiling...
Airman to England. To succeed General Eisenhower as Commander of U.S. Forces in the European theater went Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, whom many flyers rank No. 1 among American military airmen. Silver-haired, deep-chested Frank Andrews is the soft-spoken father of U.S. air power by virtue of his term (1935-39) as first chief of the GHQ Air Force. He was the ranking and most determined advocate of the now-battle-tested heavy bomber...
...version of the yarn tells of a cowboy named Rot-Gut Pete who fell victim to a giant flycatcher plant in Arizona. Searchers for him found only a watch, 42 boot nails, 11 buttons, a six-shooter, a belt buckle and two silver dollars...