Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years in Europe with Armco Steel Corp., silver-haired, silver-tongued Robert A. Solborg, 57, has learned to speak eleven foreign languages. Last week Solborg signed three contracts that made good reading in any language. The biggest deal called for Armco to supervise construction and operation of Italy's first continuous strip rolling mill, at the Cornigliano steel plant near Genoa. The mill, which will cost $87 million, will be financed by ECA (32%) and the Italian government, and is one of the first joint attempts by ECA and U.S. private enterprise to help Europe's steel industry...
...born last month when Mayor William O'Dwyer remembered how Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Irving Langmuir had caused 320 billion gallons of rain (enough to fill New York's reservoirs with 60 billion gallons to spare) to fall on arid New Mexico by burning $20 worth of silver iodide. Scientist Langmuir, just retired from General Electric Research Laboratory at 68, did not feel up to taking on New York's job himself, but on his recommendation the city hired as its chief rainmaker a 35-year-old, Harvard-trained meteorologist, Dr. Wallace Howell...
...radar equipment (used in spotting rain-laden clouds). The city had made a deal with a Boston weather service to tell them when clouds were heading toward the Catskills; it was converting two of its four police department airplanes to use in dropping dry-ice pellets and silver-iodide ejectors, and two city trucks to use in cloud-tickling from the ground with silver iodide when flying was not feasible...
Good as Gold. American Express was founded the year after the California Gold Rush, when several companies, including the famed express companies of Wells and Fargo, merged into the Amer ican Express Co. to ship gold, silver and paper currency through the Wild West...
More elaborate techniques to be introduced within a few weeks will include refinements in the dropping mechanisms and the installation of silver iodide smoke generators on the aircraft...