Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seaside resort of Blackpool in industrial Lancashire, Soviet Ambassador Jacob A. Malik found an unlikely path to the heart of the British masses. He pulled a silver-handled switch, turning on 450,000 colored lights that run for seven miles and cause illuminated tableaux, moving figures and patriotic portraits to glitter brilliantly against a background of 50 miles of electric bulbs. The lights are the pride of the working class of Lancashire, and the wily Soviet ambassador praised lights, people, town, county, and even allowed that the celebration was not unlike certain Soviet celebrations, before crying, "Long live light...
...Silver Substitute. The copper shortage may soon start pinching many areas of the surging U.S. economy. The generation and distribution of each new kilowatt of electrical power requires 115 Ibs. of copper, and to date the only completely satisfactory substitute is silver, costing 90? an ounce. Copper is essential to automobile production; each new car takes an average 24 Ibs., or a total of 10% of all the copper used in the nation. U.S. builders are putting more copper than prewar into home construction, and the average $20,000 copper-wired, copper-piped house uses about $400 worth...
...Genius. One of those inevitable accidents which mark the life of a genius turned Hogarth into the delineator of his age, or in his own phrase, its "master phiz-monger." He was just another London apprentice (his job was incising coats of arms on the gentry's silver plate), wandering about town like so many young men, knowing himself to be a genius, but not knowing what to be a genius about. A tavern brawl gave him his cue. A Sunday drinker clobbered another over the scalp with a quartern tankard. In 18th century terms it was a "laughable...
...Judas of Fast's title story is a backslid leftist playwright named Harvey Crane. For an imminent production, he has raised $300,000 (a multiple of the 30 pieces of silver, and thus a big symbol). Then he is asked to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, whose chairman may be assumed to be Pontius Pilate. Hollywood is the fleshpots of imperial Rome. Villainous lawyers and venal politicians ("For a thousand dollars you can buy a Senator") gnash their teeth in the wings, and of course Judas Crane lets his old party pal have it (after...
Contact. In Montevideo, Uruguay, Alberico Averardo Cruzado, 25, was fired from his job as prison warden after he learned from a convict how to mint coins without silver, went into a short-lived but thriving counterfeiting business with his mother, sister and childhood friend...