Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, the real-estate operator who shifted its shopping center from Lake Street to State Street, its residential district from the South Shore to the North; the hotel man who built the first two Palmer Houses* and, in the second, set a style by paving its barbershop with silver dollars. His wife brought big-time Society to gawky, brash Chicago...
...Lake Shore Drive was its center and showpiece and beneath its 80-ft. crenellated towers Bertha Palmer ruled without challenge. The entrance hall rose, tier on carved tier, three floors to a glass dome. The great fireplace was copied from an Italian palazzo, complete to andirons of smoked silver. There was a Louis XVI salon, a Spanish music room, an English dining room, a Moorish room where the rugs were impregnated with rarest perfumes. There were no outside knobs or locks; anyone wanting to get in (and many did) had to ring...
Only 300 grams (about ⅔ Ib.) of silver iodide were used on that day, and Dr. Langmuir offered elaborate mathematical proof that this small amount brought down 320 billion gallons of rain, enough to fill all of New York City's reservoirs. He thinks that the iodide particles, drifting eastward, caused a long streak of rain through southern Colorado and Kansas. "It is very important," he concluded, "that regular tests on certain selected days of each week be carried out throughout the year using amounts of seeding agents just sufficient to obtain conclusive statistical data as to their effectiveness...
...Weather Bureau, which has tried silver iodide on its own, is still skeptical. But Bureau Chief Dr. F. W. Reichelderfer agreed with Langmuir that careful tests should be made and the results scrutinized by disinterested scientists...
...like an impecunious vampire ("Artists," he says, "owe a debt to millionaires that can never be repaid, except in cash"). His only lucky break comes when he invades the swank apartment of a holidaying rich man and, after jimmying the food closets and the wine cellar and pawning the silver service, dreamily proceeds to daub The Raising of Lazarus on the wall over the antique sideboard. But in two ticks Gulley himself is invaded by another, equally ruthless genius-a ferocious sculptor who cheerfully hoists a vast block of rock through the studio window and sets to work with...