Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bivouac. At dusk the columns draw close to the shelter of a mountainside and scraggly clumps of paloverde and green-silver, dusty-needled tamarisk trees. Every vehicle halts a good distance from every other: there are no clusters of machines to make targets for surprise air attacks...
...workers will soon match for cokes with a new kind of nickel. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau last week told the Philadelphia mint to get going on new U.S. 5? pieces containing 35% silver, 56% copper, 9% manganese-but no nickel. The current Jefferson head-and-home design will not be changed. Present coins are 25% nickel-75% copper, and the switch to new alloys will save about 850 tons of nickel and copper annually...
...will also save a lot of headaches for the U.S. Treasury, which has worked on nickel-less nickels for almost a year. Last February a 50% silver-50% copper nickel was tested, wouldn't go down most coin-operated machines. The new nickels work fine...
About the only silver lining in the whole affair is that if someone had to be injured, the ends can afford it best. In the persons of Pete Garland and Len Cummings Coach Harlow has enough material to bolster the post left vacant by Forte's incapacity. Few other positions on the squad have as much depth as does this department...
...anesthetic was reported last week in the American Journal of Surgery by Drs. Waldo Edwards and Robert Hingson, who developed it at the U.S. Marine Hospital (where wives of Coast Guardsmen have their babies) on Staten Island, N.Y. The anesthetic is continuous and localized in the pelvic region. A silver needle is inserted into the caudal area, just below the spinal column, where it remains throughout labor. The needle is connected with a flask of the anesthetic, two-thirds of an ounce of which is administered every 30 or 40 minutes. Longest labor during which the anesthetic has been given...