Word: vulcanization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year. Calculations of classical Newtonian gravitation predict some shift, but not nearly so much as that actually observed. In desperation a French astronomer named Leverrier decided that the rest of the shift must be due to an unseen planet even closer to the sun than Mercury. Leverrier called it "Vulcan." He looked long and hard for it. Once a doctor peering through a telescope thought he saw Vulcan. He and Leverrier announced the discovery, were given banquets and medals for their find. But they never saw it again, nor did anyone else. Apparently "Vulcan" does not exist...
...painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city, T. C. I. spent $29,000,000 on expansion in 1936, has spent more millions since. Today, Birmingham has a score of skyscrapers, a church for every 700 citizens, a 53-foot cast-iron statue of Vulcan (atop a WPA-built, 120-foot pedestal) in Red Mountain Park...