Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week an interior decorator went to the Fifth Avenue triplex apartment of C. Bai Lihme, retired Danish-American zinc man. He was commissioned to remove some 16th Century Flemish tapestries which Mr. Lihme was lending for exhibition. But, being a first class decorator, he knew he would see even finer things than tapestries at Mr. Lihme's. He knew that in the Lihme drawing-room was the $50,000 "Portrait of an Old Man" which Peter Paul Rubens painted some 300 years ago, a patrician subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been...
...newsgatherers with stories of prowling on the ocean floor under 60 feet of water, clad in an ordinary bathing suit and diver's helmet equipped with air-and-telephone tube.? He dictated piscatorial descriptions to an assistant in a schooner above. Occasionally he scribbled fleeting impressions on a zinc plate with a lead pencil...
...observing the spasms caused in dead frogs' muscles by contact with mixed metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc discs together, with moist cloths between and a wire connecting top and bottom discs-the first battery. Napoleon called him to Paris, sent him home laden with honors...
August Heckscher, zinc, realty: "I find myself fertile with philanthropic ideas. Last week I promised to Mayor Walker of New York $250,000,000 to replace New York slums with model dwellings, if the city and state governments will supply a like amount. I will raise my sum by dunning 500 rich friends for $500,000 each, to be paid in five yearly instalments. Mayor Walker dared not scoff. Others were impressed...
This August Heckscher, who "bounds" about, is a happy old man, doing just as he pleases. After the Civil War he came to the U. S. from Germany and by 1905 had become sufficiently rich (coal, mines, New Jersey Zinc Co.) to retire. He thought to devote all his time to ameliorating the living conditions of poor children. He likes them, pities them. But business oppor-tunities-railroads, steel works, Manhattan and Florida realty-knocked, assiduously, made him richer...