Word: bausch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. of Rochester, N.Y. shipped to the Los Alamos atomic laboratory the most ambitious grating that has been completed so far. It has 211,000 lines crowded into a space only seven inches long-more than 30,000 to the inch. A single human hair covers 90 of the lines. Bigger gratings have been ruled, but never one of this size with so many lines per inch. Price...
...Bausch & Lomb engine does its work in an underground, air-conditioned hideout cut deep into bedrock and fanatically guarded against distracting intrusions. No one may approach it while it is at work; the heat of one man's body might raise the temperature enough to ruin the job. There must be no vibration or fluctuations of power supply, so most of the work on the latest grating was done while the company's plant was shut down for its annual vacation...
...opposing any change in the Neutrality Act, opposing Lend-Lease as the road to certain U.S. involvement in the conflict. In 1940, he headed the Democrats-for-Willkie group. He became a director of a number of topflight U.S. corporations, e.g., Freeport Sulphur Co., Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Co., Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. In 1948, he served for a year as chief of the ECA mission to The Netherlands and was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Queen Juliana...