Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco Castillo Nájera, Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S. and a good chess player, was playing the biggest diplomatic game of his career. On the international chessboard in Washington were some powerful pieces-oil, silver, the Good Neighbor policy. One afternoon last week, at an hour usually sacred to siesta, Chess Player Castillo Nájera played all his pieces and played them well...
...Because silver compounds (e.g., Argyrol) are potent germicides, a black silver-plastic mixture which can be permanently coated about the rims of drinking glasses and bottles was developed by Physicist Alexander Goetz and Bacteriologist Ralph L. Tracy of Caltech. Within a short while after lip contact, the rather decorative rim completely sterilizes itself...
...Because silver is the best electrical conductor and the rearming U.S. will be short some 770,000 tons of copper next year, the 100,000 tons of Treasury bullion might well be largely drawn into wire and installed in new defense plants this winter to save some 75,000 tons of copper. So suggested Robert E. McConnell at a convention of chemical engineers. Copper is priced at 12? a lb., silver around $10 a Ib. depending on when it was bought; but defense plants are well guarded and their wires full of deadly high voltages 24 hours a day. After...
...making it illegal to discuss the overthrow of the U. S. Government. They were at first accused of actual conspiracy, on the grounds that the Union had, two years ago, bought two 22 rifles and conducted target practice, very ostentatiously and publicly, in order to frighten away a Silver Shirt group which was threatening to raid union headquarters. The Silver Shirts disappeared very quickly, and the rifle practice was abandoned. Last official act of the volunteer marksmen was to act as ushers at a children's Christmas party held by the Union. The charge of conspiracy has already been dropped...
...prosecution has found countless tons of Trotskyite literature mouldering in the union headquarters, which literature was seized in a surprise raid by the FBI. The evidence of conspiracy is that the union instituted target practice some three years ago when the Silver Shirts were threatening to raid them. This was done, not secretly, but very publicly, so as to warn off the fascists. If the target practice had been known for three years, the presence of Trotskyite literature has been known for a decade...