Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landscape designer named André Le Nôtre. A special workshop with Flemish artisans was set up nearby at Maincy to execute Le Brun's tapestry designs. The chateau's 105 rooms were furnished with armchairs of Chinese plush and Persian carpets, vermilion and silver vases, crystal chandeliers and gold clocks...
...Kodak reported a record second quarter, 14% up despite the new surtax and higher costs. First-quarter earnings were restated as $65.7 million, down $5.5 million from previous figures, due to the surtax. Eastman spokesmen said that "profit margins held up well in the face of rising costs of silver and other materials and in creasing wage rates. The tax surcharge, however, had a decidedly adverse effect on the rate of net earnings...
Heavy Hand. Thos. Cook & Son is now trying to change that image. This fall, through an exclusive link-up with British European Airways, it will initiate "Silver Wing Tours," offering a choice of low-cost package tours to no fewer than 97 vacation spots. The minimum price will be $89.60 for a 14-day trip from London to Mallorca and back, including lodging, meals and free information that can be gained from Cook's expert agency. Cook's expects to pick up 250,000 to 300,000 customers for such inclusive tours...
Successively, he became involved as an investigator of graft in Hyderabad (he nailed the grafters), in the promotion of a machine to extract gold from low-grade ore (it did not work well), the colonization of Kenya (he fell into an elephant trap), lobbying for a gold-silver currency standard (it was not adopted), and the hawking of a patent disinfectant called Electrozone. If his promotion was good, his financing was inadequate, and if both were good, someone cheated him out of his commission. He borrowed from his brothers, his friends, their friends and his children, and lectured his nephew...
Mapping the Milky Way. This week the satellite will receive a radio command from earth and begin to unfurl its giant antenna system. Carried as flat ribbons of silver-plated copper alloy coiled on spools within the satellite, the tubular legs will be formed as the outer edges of the unwinding ribbons curl towards each other and meet. Tiny tabs along the edges of the ribbon will hook together as the tubeb forms, adding rigidity. At first, the antenna legs will be extended only 358 ft. from the craft, to test their stability. Then they will grow to their full...