Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, lumbering, grey-thatched man with a quizzical look and the three silver stars of a lieutenant general quietly strolls in. Quietly he walks up & down the production lines, looking hard, saying little. Sometimes he stops, shows a workman how to handle a tool more smoothly. Sometimes he reroutes a whole line. He leaves without fuss, flies on to the next plant, the thanks of production bosses ringing after...
Worker. Republican leaders needed a strong man to head off Gerald Smith. They found him in mild-mannered, hardworking Judge Ferguson. In three years, working as a one-man grand jury, silver-haired Judge Ferguson had mopped up gambling and vice rackets with an annual take of $20,000,000, had sent nearly a dozen city officials and scores of bribe-taking policemen to jail (TIME, June 1). He talked little about democracy, tried his best to make it work...
...driest Idaho, he courageously ran for Senator on a repeal platform. Although he comes from silver-mining country, he steadily, firmly condemns the Silver Purchase Act as economic idiocy. He was Democratic county chairman in 1940 when Glenn Taylor won the nomination and at once resigned in disgust, announcing that he would support the Republican nominee, who was, said he, an economic illiterate but not quite a complete imbecile. He calls Cowboy Taylor a "goddam pettifogging demagogue...
...celebrated and great city, very rich and respected, very wise and strong, [where the people] lived in fine palaces, some made of pure jade, some of silver, and some of emeralds without flaw...
...regard opticians-who grind spectacle lenses to within only 1/10,000 inch-as crude workmen. To make a mirror, two flat slabs of glass are rubbed together off center with fine abrasives in between. Slowly a concave parabolic surface is formed on one slab, which is then coated with silver. The work is all done by hand; it is not considered sporting to use a grinding machine unless it too is homemade. The average homemade telescope represents 100 hours of work, $20 worth of materials...