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Since late last year, the silver-short U.S. has been forced to mint silverless "sandwich" quarters and dimes containing a central layer of copper between two thin slices of copper-nickel alloy. Now another Government agency has suggested a more direct solution: find more silver. To aid prospectors, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have designed and successfully tested a "silver snooper," a device capable of locating silver deposits buried as deep as three feet below the ground. By shooting a stream of neutrons into the earth, the snooper turns the silver temporarily radioactive, causing it literally to signal its presence...
...mints (Philadelphia and Denver). A far richer windfall for the Government, however, is the Coinage Act of 1965, passed by Congress in July to cut the multimillion-ounce yearly drain from the U.S.'s dwindling silver supply.* The law stipulates that all new dimes and quarters must be silverless and the silver content of half dollars trimmed from...
...last week, split violently on whether the silverware should be handed over to the ex-Crown Princess, as the Monarchists wished, or be given to the Public Museum, as the Republicans wished. Nothing was decided. The 20th wedding anniversary of the ex-royal couple is likely, therefore, to be silverless...
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