Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor "developed" electronic engravings on gold, iodine on silver, hydrochloric acid on zinc, iodine on copper...
Tadjikistan, both strategically and commercially important, abuts on Afghanistan and China, produces not only cotton but gold, coal, oil, iron, zinc and pigeon-blood rubies. Intensive field work by smart agents of Dictator Stalin caused Tadjiks to increase the area of their cotton fields from a mere 4,900 acres in 1917 to 240,000 acres this year. Meantime at the Moscow Government's expense 140 miles of railway are under construction in Tadjikistan, together with 312 miles of highways, 60 medical dispensaries, twelve modern hospitals...
...Telluride district contains gold, silver, lead, zinc. Famed mines: Liberty Bell, Silver Pick, Tomboy, Black Bear, Smuggler...
...president of First National of Great Falls) the board will number leading industrialists. Among those already chosen are John D. Ryan, Cornelius F. Kelly, and L. O. Evans, respectively the chairman, president and general manager of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., gigantic producer and fabricator not only of copper, but zinc, lead, silver, gold, antimony, arsenic...
Plans call for a quadrangular development containing a new hotel, community building (postoffice, town hall, library), blocks of shops, a plaza, a park. Estimated cost: $10,000,000. President of the improvement corporation is Edgar Palmer, potent townsman, Princeton alumnus (1903), board chairman of New Jersey Zinc Co., financier (realty, railroads, insurance, public utilities...