Word: barium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feared it would lose money the third quarter too, so it was pulling in its horns. Last week, besides scheduling a ten-day shutdown to let sales catch up with production, K-F sold two iron and steel plants at Phoenixville, Pa. Buyer: the Barium Steel Corp. Price: more than...
Radioactive Hornets. Brookhaven scientists discovered that ordinary hornets accumulate barium in their bodies. Since radioactive barium is one of the products of uranium fission, they intend to place hornets at key positions around Brookhaven's nuclear reactor. If the hornets become radioactive, the scientists will know that fission products are getting loose...
...profit to $32 million, boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half the current market price of its stock. Even tiny Barium Steel, which had never paid a dividend, declared one of 10% in stock...
...newsmen knew what that meant. It meant the first big postwar strike. Behind the door on the mezzanine of Detroit's Barium Hotel, 200 representatives of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers had voted to stop all production at giant General Motors Corp. the next morning...
Puzzle to Fission. Late in 1938 a distinguished German chemist named Otto Hahn, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm-Institute, was bombarding uranium with "slow" neutrons of low energy. As one of the end products, he identified barium. This puzzled him, but he published a diffident note on it in Naturwissenschalfen...