Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Eisenhower was responsible for the Berlin blockade in 1948, said Dewey, was "the most shocking exhibition of hypocrisy and downright fraud." Dewey, an accomplished television speaker, had a little show prepared to make his point. He cracked a raw egg into an ash tray. This, he said, symbolized the "mess" the politicians made of the German situation. Then, said Dewey, the politicians ordered Eisenhower: "General, you put that yolk back into...
...Force weather-watching B29. The volcano was still going strong, but probably not as strong as when it was younger. It has built a cinder cone some 800 ft. above the former level of the rocky island. Every five or ten minutes it shoots up tons of gas and ash, then lies quiet for five or ten minutes. Between explosions, Dr. Dietz from his airplane took a deep look into the crater. He estimated that the temperature of the erupting throat is about 2,000° F. He also noticed the rotten-eggs odor of hydrogen sulfide, which volcanologists consider...
Someone else was trying to solve the Iranian problem last week. Her name was Madame Sadika Garagozlou. She was a slim ash blonde with full-blown lips and eyes that would melt the heart of an Italian galley pirate, if not of a British diplomat. In Rome last week, she left behind a trail of perfume, but what she had to sell was more pungent: Iranian...
...cheap ($4,200) Utiliscope. For Long Island Lighting Co., it peers inside a furnace to make sure the pilot light is burning before the furnace is refueled. For Manhattan's Consolidated Edison, it watches the water level in a boiler five floors away and checks up on fly-ash at the top of 250-ft. chimneys for the furnace tenders...
When Nichols took over Mathieson, the company was barely keeping pace with the fast-growing chemical industry. It had only three plants, turning out caustic soda for making rayon, soda ash for glassmaking, and liquid chlorine. By a series of mergers and purchases, Nichols expanded to 20 plants and moved into other fields. He bought a fertilizer company and two of the biggest sulphuric acid plants in. the world, pioneered in the field of petrochemicals by extracting them from natural gas far from the well and close to the customer...