Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Mac & Smith. Inside Buckingham Palace, the royal household pulsated with hundreds of last-minute tasks. Breakfast had to be cooked and silver tea trays arranged for 70 extra royal relatives-more house guests than had slept there in 42 years. The Queen arose at 7:30 and kneeled briefly to pray. Her tea tray was brought in the same as everyday, except for a small bouquet of fresh flowers and a note: "With every possible good wish today and always. From Mac and Smith"-her personal maids. For the moment, the handmaidens ruled the Queen. Her beauty expert applied...
...bearded old man spoke precisely, with a German accent, carefully emphasizing his words. "Providence never sends what is finished," he said. "Providence sends only possibilities and a task." Silver-haired Rabbi Leo Baeck was 80 years old last week, and Providence still keeps him busy with tasks and possibilities. Six months of the year he teaches religion at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati; six months he labors in England as president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. And all the time he carries with him the possibilities and tasks of one who is venerated as a hero, a scholar...
...Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.'s airport at Santa Monica, Calif. last week, Test Pilot John Martin climbed into the silver belly of the newest Douglas transport, the DC-7. For an hour, Pilot Martin and his three engineers gave last-minute checks to the 600 dials and indicators in the cockpit and flight engineer's compartment. Then they sent the huge, four-engine plane scooting along the runway and into the air on its first test flight, while 12,000 Douglas employees around the field set up a cheer...
Rain Unmaker. New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park has asked Professional Rainmaker Wallace E. Howell (TIME, July 24, 1950) to try to keep rain from falling on the park. Howell's method will be similar to that used to make rain (seeding clouds with silver iodide), except that he will overdose the clouds in hopes of making the water particles too tiny to fall. Estimated cost for rain-stopping from June 1 to Labor...
Cheers in the Streets. His reward for a lifetime of doing his job well came in the Silver Jubilee celebration of 1935, the year before he died. Drawn by four greys with postilions, the King and his Queen drove around the poorer quarters of London, through Battersea, Kennington and Lambeth, Limehouse and Whitechapel. Everywhere, his subjects turned out to applaud and cheer...