Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spend It? Military law allows few pleasure domes. Sporting ladies are scarce. Stores have no difficulty selling anything they can get. Books disappear from shelves as quickly as the dealers put them there. Customers ask music dealers for records of Jingle, Jangle, Jingle or He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings but are satisfied with songs as old as Cheek to Cheek. Movie theaters are packed with customers delighted to see The Courtship of Andy Hardy...
...incidence of diabetes is decreased." Thus the U.S. diabetes death rate slumped in 1918-19 when sugar was scarce, but sugar consumption alone is by no means responsible for the diabetic death rate (see chart). Diabetic deaths dropped dramatically in Germany from 1917 to 1924-starvation's silver lining...
...treated film, there is no surface emulsion and no silver. Instead, a strip of cellophane is thoroughly impregnated with a mixture of "diazo" compounds which are closely related to dyes, but are only a faint yellow in color. Wherever light strikes, the diazo compounds are quickly and effectively bleached. Developing and fixing are combined in a single operation (exposure of the film to ammonia fumes), which may be done in subdued daylight. This exposure does not change the portions of the film that light has reached, but the ammonia turns the unexposed diazo compound red (or some other color, depending...
...complicated chemical treatment is involved, the film can be exposed, developed, finished in a continuous operation at 80 feet per minute. Since the image is inside the strip, not on the surface, scratches and dust are no problem. The cost of the dyed film is one-tenth that of silver, and because of its sharpness can carry three times as much sound track per inch...
...Institute of Pacific Relations was beginning when news of the attack broke. "There was dead silence for two minutes. In those 120 seconds, 80 different opinions were resolved. It was unanimously agreed, as one delegate put it, that 'Japan has handed America its long-needed unity on a silver platter...