Word: alkalis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satisfied with Bufete are its U.S. customers that they rely on the firm when considering further expansion in Mexico. Celanese Corp. of America has used Bufete for 26 jobs, Diamond Alkali for seven, Du Pont for 14, and General Motors for two. Among Bufete's present projects: a $20 million pulp and paper plant for Kimberly-Clark in Veracruz and a $30 million Kodak filmmaking plant at Guadalajara...
Perhaps the most important single product of space research is mundane: paint. Researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland concocted an alkali silicate paint that toughly resists weather, solvents and radiation-and NASA has licensed three U.S. paint companies to guide its commercial...
...16th century, including yard-long shears. In the penthouse studio, the restorers ("Most important men here," says Rorimer) contemplate a Renaissance Piero di Cosimo for months before attempting to remedy a millimeter's flaking. In the dungeon basements, a crusty bronze Vishnu lies in a vat of alkali soaking nearly a year until cleanliness restores it to godliness...
...Cambridge to the University of London. Wherever he went, he persisted in self-experimentation. He had the blood supply to his arm shut off with a tourniquet until the arm was paralyzed, then watched another man move it with an electric current. To upset his body's acid-alkali balance, he drank ammonium chloride and panted for days afterward. To prove that "sunstroke" (properly, heat stroke) is not caused directly by the sun's rays, but by the overheating of the brain and spinal cord, he sat in Egypt's broiling sun for two hours, periodically dousing...
...plans for I.C.I. The company is setting up operations to buy crude oil from British companies, remove valuable petrochemicals and sell the rest as gasoline or fuel oil. It is spreading out from simply supplying plastic to molding plastic products. It now sells 12,000 different items from alkali to nylon zippers and intends to expand its finished-product lines. Such adventuresomeness seems only natural to a company whose birth certificate is a piece of steamship stationery...