Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finished in detail by a group of orientalists headed by Vadime Elisseeff, chief curator of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris. Encyclopedic in scope-the objects on display range from rudimentary quartz and flint scrapers used by Peking Man in 500,000 B.C. to the exquisite porcelains and silver toilet articles of the Yuan dynasty, which ended in A.D. 1368-it is intelligently mounted, with unobtrusive panels of photos, documents and information: an ideal teaching show, in fact. But unlike most didactic exhibitions, it is crammed with masterpieces of breathtaking authority...
...lait-colored Darling River. From Menindee, a water pipe runs beside the track for 75 miles to the parched mining city of Broken Hill. A man must live in Broken Hill for eight years just to qualify for work in the lead, zinc and silver mines of this hard, uncompromising, union-ruled town. The train flits by a clump of "humpies" (aborigine huts built of empty gasoline drums). The kids wave...
...sorting out rolling stock for three different gauge tracks. In Gladstone, east-and westbound trains stop side by side to swap crews. "Be careful you get back on the right one," warns the chief conductor, Joe Ford, as he spots a passenger alighting dangerously between the two identical silver liners. By nightfall the train is heading into the "back o' beyond," where tiny settlements along the track still depend on a fortnightly supply train called the "tea and sugar...
...star of Texasgulf's metals division is the Kidd Creek Mine at Timmins, Ont., the world's richest source of zinc and silver as well as a major supplier of copper, lead and cadmium. In addition to its Canadian holdings, Texasgulf owns sulfur mines in Texas and Louisiana, a potash mine in Utah, three iron mines in Australia and woodlands in Pennsylvania. Despite a somewhat desultory performance in the stock market in recent years, Texasgulf has impressive profits. In this year's first half, it earned $22.9 million, almost double last year's rate, on sales...
Direct Hit. In February 1941, Eddie Rickenbacker was aboard Eastern's Mexico City Silver Sleeper when the DC-3 crashed as it approached Atlanta. Rickenbacker was badly injured. In the hospital, he heard the radio voice of Walter Winchell announce that he was dying. "I began to fight," Rickenbacker recalled later. "They had me under an oxygen tent. I tore it apart and picked up a pitcher. I heaved it at the radio and scored a direct hit. The radio fell apart and Winchell's voice stopped. Then I got well...