Word: aluminum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aluminum...
...that only 4% of U. S. families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther Blake of Standard Statistics Co., Walter P. Chrysler, Roy A. Hunt of Aluminum Co. of America, Matthew C. Brush, Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone and Telegraph, K. R. Kingsbury of Standard Oil Co. of California. William Wrigley Jr. and John J. Raskob announced that they were buying stocks...
...gold to support and also the fact that coal and iron and manufactured products are just as truly wealth as is gold. But it would be a queer idea of business which would involve the House of Morgan trading Standard Brands for the House of Mellon's Aluminum Co., both in the hope of breaking the Federal Reserve system...
...Southern Pacific is proud of many things, of its new cars kept cool in Southwestern deserts by special aluminum paint and anti-actinic window glass, of its freight service, so efficient that a carload of potted lilies recently went through without a pot broken or a single flower crushed. But its hospitals have long been its especial pride. Most roads maintain a staff of nurses and doctors with emergency stations at important terminals. Only three roads have their own hospitals: the Illinois Central, at Chicago, the Central of Georgia, at Savannah, and the Southern Pacific, at San Francisco (250 beds...
...perfect industrial metal must be stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, heat resisting, tough. Metallurgists have not compounded it. But some 6,000 of them felt that they were approaching the goal as they listened to metallurgical discourses of the National Metal Congress held last week at Cleveland, the Foundry City.* Manganese-Molybdenum Steel. Hard and sharp were the Samurai swords of Japan, the Toledo blades of Spain, the Damascus cutlery of the Levant-because their steels contained small amounts of molybdenum. However, the presence of molybdenum was accident. Mineralogists did not recognize it as a metal until...