Word: block
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smaller Scorpion plummeting to a puff of smoke in the green-brown Verdugo hills to the northeast. The DC-7B at first spiraled lazily, then, its dive steepening, went into a twisting spin, finally plunged with a thunderous roar onto the lawn of the Pacoima Congregational Church, just a block from the Junior High School. There on the athletic fields, 220 seventh-and eighth-grade boys were moving back into the gymnasium...
Dashing hysterically to the school, panicky mothers in pin curls and slacks retrieved their children, led them home through a 20-block area strewn with hunks of fallen metal, fragments of Fiberglas insulation, oxygen tanks. Though wreckage had pierced walls and roofs, no one outside the Junior High schoolyard was seriously hurt. From Los Angeles in the wake of the crash came angry demands for federal controls. But in the San Fernando Valley, anger was tempered by sorrow, and death had wiped magic from the air and sparkling sun. Gathering her child to her tightly, a mother said sadly: "Living...
...Ohio bends into West Virginia, the advantages of cheap power and good water, plus a vast underground block of salt 200 miles long and more than 100 ft. thick, have attracted scores of chemical companies: Columbia?Southern Chemical Corp., Koppers Co., Shea Chemical Corp., Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., Monsanto Chemical. Farther along, other companies are spending over $300 million to make everything from jet-engine parts to autos and electronic tubes...
...mesons disintegrate in two-millionths of a second, each forming an electron and two neutrinos, and this lifetime is too short to permit thermal motions in the carbon block to disturb them appreciably. When they lodge in the carbon, they are all spinning in the same direction, and under these conditions the parity principle requires that when they disintegrate, they must shoot out the same number of electrons in each direction along their common spin axis...
...vacations and Detroit closes for model changeovers. That would add up to a record 120 million-ton year. U.S. Steel, Inland Steel and Pittsburgh Steel expect to pour near capacity in the first half; Jones & Laughlin figures 100% through March, 90% in the second quarter. Said Inland President Joseph Block last week: "Steelmen are rediscovering a little pessimism. But there is no cause for alarm...