Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the hit came. What had been a nightclub became a nightmare: heaps of wreckage crushing the heaps of dead and maimed, a shambles of silver slippers, broken magnums, torn sheet music, dented saxophones, smashed discs. One of the dead was Martinus Poulsen, who before the war owned a chain of night spots worth more than ?250.000. But some of the carefree young survived. They dragged themselves out. They went with their bruises and grime to a West End hotel. They washed up. They went to the ballroom and ordered food and drinks. They asked the bandleader for a number...
Towering, silver-haired, pink-faced Sir William Davison, 69, is a peppery, ultra-conservative M.P. who looks like an Esquire illustration of elderly, tweedy correctness. He is also a great believer in the power of thought. "I am no crank," says he, "but if people all over the world wished and willed the same thing at the same time there would be a great deal...
...made out of tin. By putting the tin plate in a larger aluminum pan and adding warm salt water and soda, the silverware, Dr. Kelley pointed out, can be cleaned of tarnish by placing it in the water so it touches the tin plate. Promptly she was deluged with silver polish samples, which manufacturers begged her to use instead of her 10? pie plate...
Called geobotany by Engineer Lundberg, this method of prospecting was developed in Sweden. Tin, nickel, silver copper, many other metals can also be located by plant absorption...
...Upping the U. S. Treasury price for Mexican and Peruvian silver...