Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot frame into a skimpy Western Union messenger uniform, got the thrill of his life. Summoned to the private railroad car of the President of the U. S., on a siding in Philadelphia, he was met by Secretary Stephen Early, who gave him a $10 bill, and a plain silver wrist watch, with instructions to get the crystal fixed. On its back was inscribed...
...Senate. Oklahoma's silver-tongued Josh Lee, who had urged the destroyer deal, and often says what Frank lin Roosevelt wants spoken, cried again: "England's critical need is not for men but for ships, planes and supplies. . . . There fore, I call upon the President to make available to England . . . flying fortresses, bombers, fighting planes and warships." Wailed Isolationist Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri: "If the British ask the President they will get the flying fortresses . . . and almost anything else they want...
...World's Fair site on Long Island, they bored a narrow well 50 ft. deep, lined it with double steel tubing, stoppered it at the bottom with concrete and sand. The capsule, a cartridge seven and a half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal, building materials, synthetic...
...Sherwin. The remainder helps Thomas to run his estate on Quaker Hill in New York's Dutchess County, where he lives with his wife and 17-year-old son Lowell Jr. There on fat rolling acres Thomas maintains a fine big Colonial mansion, two swimming pools, a silver fox farm, a small radio studio, a baseball diamond, a four-piece orchestra, a stableful of horses, tennis courts and a ski run. Close by is a 2,000-acre real-estate development, in which he invested $280,000 two years ago and to which he devotes much of his spare...
...mutation of silver fox, platina fox furs come as low as $300, as high as $12,000. Since the quota on platina foxes has already been filled, due to unloading by Norwegian furriers before the war, the fur Ripley's four Norwegians brought with them is being held in a warehouse until December. To suggest the fur that wasn't there a fancy platina fox worth $11,000 was on display in the studio. On hand for the show were representatives of many a famed Manhattan store, along with bidders from stores in Philadelphia, Dallas, Cleveland, Chicago...