Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lethal Silver. It has long been known that silver is a deadly killer of one-celled organisms, and silver has been widely used as a germicide. It used to be thought, how ever, that from 100,000 to 100,000,000 silver atoms were needed to kill a cell. Last week Physicist Alexander Goetz of Caltech described experiments showing that under favorable circumstances just one silver atom will kill a cell - a feat roughly comparable to the killing of a dinosaur by a gnat...
...Council of Churches of Christ in America, at present Chairman of the Council's Commission for the Study of Christian Unity. "The Problem of World Organization"; Dr. Gerald B. Phelan, President of the Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada, noted psychologist, "The Problem of the Individual"; Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Rabbi of The Temple, Cleveland, O., "The Problem of Racial Relations"; and Dr. Henry J. Cadbury, Hollis Professor of Divinity, "The Problem...
...Netherlands Indies comprise the juiciest colonial plum in the world. Only one other area produces more rubber, three others more oil. Japan gets one-quarter of its oil there. The islands export sugar, coffee, quinine, tobacco, copra, spices, cattle, timber, coal, tin, gold, silver-all of which Japan can use. Their 60,727,233 inhabitants are a huge market for Japanese textiles and cut-rate manufactures...
...book consists of 30 sections, of which nine are stories, the others short panels of monologue giving the historical setting, sketching the traces of old times from which the author has imagined his scenes. The panorama extends from the Pueblo Indian civilization that "watched the steel and silver helmets of the invaders spark with sunlight" in the distance, to an imitation Hollywood pr'meer conducted by a promoter in a sound truck under a local marquee. It is an eventful 400 years...
...West Penn flotation reflected 1940's major change in utility financing. Two months ago, Water Works' 75-year-old chairman, aristocratic, silver-mustached H. Hobart Porter, suggested selling $5,000,000 of new West Penn bonds, $2,500,000 of preferred stock. SEC told him that since West Penn's common stock amounted to only 22.9% of its $121,383,501 of capital and surplus he ought to freshen the kitty. Instead of fighting or calling it all off, Water Works and SEC traded, compromised. The $4,000,00 of new stock raises the common-stock share...