Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refined his old muscle technique to set up "paper locals" (no rights, few members), shook down businessmen with threats of "labor violence" and picketing. So powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months ago, when U.S. attorneys attempted to hale him before a trial jury as the mastermind behind the acid-blinding (TIME, April 16, 1956 et ante) of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel, two key underworld Government witnesses took added five-year sentences for contempt rather than sing against Dio on the witness stand, and Johnny Dio's trial had to be postponed...
Oddly enough, Dr. Melrose found that the patient's ulcer had little to do with his addiction. Main reason: he enjoyed the distention of his stomach by gas (carbon dioxide generated by the action of digestive hydrochloric acid on the bicarbonate) and the resultant belching...
...countries, Snia Viscosa was worth $500 million, had boosted production to a record high; sales totaled $120 million, profits $8,000,000. Last week the company added still another profitable asset: a $5,000,000 chemical plant at Varedo, in northern Italy, to produce 45,000 tons of sulphuric acid annually for Painter Marinotti's booming sideline...
...minutes, and enough of the newly created atoms remained to produce alpha particles. The scientists had their proof when these particles turned out to have almost exactly the energy that physical theory had predicted. Next, the plastic foil was burned away, the invisible residue dissolved in hydrochloric acid, and the acid then poured through a column filled with material that has varying attraction for different chemical elements. When alpha particles were found coming from the place in the column predicted for element 102, the scientists could be sure that they had succeeded...
...dispute centers on Edwards' stubborn fight against Florida's "early-release" policy, which has cut the average TB patient's hospital stay from two years to around nine months by using such drugs as isoniazid and para-amino salicylic acid (bought with money Edwards wrung from the legislature). Edwards contends that the drug-treated patients will suffer relapses. When he heard talk this spring that the new policy might eventually allow the William T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospital in Tallahassee (400 beds) to be converted into a mental hospital, he argued that if Florida disbands its TB facilities...