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Shares of car parts supply retailer, AutoZone (AZO), are trading at a 52 week high at $158.00. The company has a market cap of $8.7 billion. GM's market cap is only a little over $1 billion, even though its revenues are 25 times greater than AutoZone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Buy a New Car When You Can Build One? | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

Like dinitrophenol, Prontosil is an aro matic coal tar product. Prontosil's full chemical formula is the disodium salt of 4-sulph-amido-phenyl-2-azo-7-acetylamino-1-hydroxynaphthalene 3.6-disulfonic acid. All doctors fear new drugs derived from coal tar. They may exhibit unexpected deadliness. In the case of Prontosil, since like dinitrophenol it affects the production of white blood cells, it comes under the medical rule of thumb: what ever stimulates may also destroy. And it may be that the new drug by which Dr. Tobey cured Franklin Roosevelt Jr.'s septic sore throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prontosil | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...chairman of Germany's great dye trust, the I. G. Farbenindustrie, head of the Reich Federation of German Industry until he resigned in 1931; near Cologne. While employed by Fr. Bayer & Co. (Aspirin and other chemical products), he produced such coal-tar dyes as benzopurpurin (red), azo-blue, benzoazurin, sulfonazurin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 1, 1935 | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...What elements of Byronic philosophy, style or autobiography are revealed by Byron's treatment of the following subjects? (Answer with regard to ten of the thirteen subjects): (a) Gibbon, (b) Azo, (c) pedigress, (d) England, (e) any sort of bird, (f) digestion, (g) Clarens, (h) Juan's mother, (i) Cavalier servant, (j) "The castled crag of Drachenfels" (k) Medora, (l) Laura, (m) In medias...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Please Note | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

...sodium salt of benzene azo-8-acetylanimo-napthol-disulphonic acid has been discovered by reputable chemists to be the exact equivalent of crimson. Delightful predictions have been made by the Boston Herald to the effect that the Harvard Crimson will now be titled the Daily Sodium Salt of the Daily Azo-8, the abbreviated terms being necessitated by the limitations of proof reading. The originality of these oracular murmuring is unimpeachable; their pertinence unexcelled. Without doubt the prophecies will stimulate profound and wide-spread reflection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLORFUL CHEMISTRY | 11/4/1924 | See Source »

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