Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly had they handed her the big silver cup last week when go-getting Mrs. Newell told newshawks: "I am receptive to professional offers. My husband [a struggling Long Beach auditor] and I need a stake to start out married life...
...various questions" mentioned by Mexico's President might include: 1) further U.S. purchases of Mexican silver, to help stabilize the peso; 2) U.S. tariff concessions on Mexican products, to help redress Mexico's unfavorable trade balance ; 3) a trade agreement to assure Mexico a supply of U.S. machinery and raw materials* 4) settlement of such tiny but touchy international issues as the boundary dispute between Mexico and the U.S. over the Chamizal territory (about one square mile) on the Texas border...
...Arthur, Talon's president since 1939, went to Washington to present the zipper industry's plea for survival to OPM-OPACS. Because slide fasteners have tiny parts with precision fittings, the industry had to use an easily workable copper base. Talon made its fasteners of either nickel silver (65% copper, 18% nickel, 17% zinc) or gilding metal (85% copper, 15% zinc). But to operate at the last twelve months' rate (440,000,000 fasteners), the industry needed just 6,300 tons of copper a year (.6% of U.S. production), 1,600 tons of zinc (.2% of production...
Thousands of yellow-clad priests escorted the jar through the streets of Cambodia's ancient capital, Pnom-Penh, to a towering, shining new pagoda. The body was placed in a gleaming gold-&-silver catafalque. As plaintive music sounded, the new, handsome young King Sianouk of Cambodia, Sisowath's nephew, lighted a fire under Sisowath's bodily remains and incinerated them. An elegantly robed and uniformed audience made obeisance. Among them were French Indo-China's Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux, who used to rule over Sisowath, and a Japanese General representing Emperor Hirohito, who now rules...
...Urbane, silver-haired Mr. Morse, Harvard '99, has been employed by Harvard since 1923 to see where its money goes. When he started his job, nobody knew; 150 Harvard departments had authority to spend, and used their authority with great absentmindedness. Mr. Morse saved Harvard a lot of money. Some of his tales...