Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, in the 1930s, CalTech's Chemist Linus Carl Pauling attacked the useful but mysterious bonds from the new angle of quantum theory. He found that the "resonance" of the atoms (their internal vibration) is the source of the forces that hold molecules together. His book, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, is one of the classics of modern science...
...United Gas Corp., world's biggest integrated gas system, which will go into the petrochemical field. United Gas and its former parent company, Electric Bond & Share Co., will build a $23 million gas cracking plant near Pensacola, Fla. and National Research will buy a 10% interest in it. At first, United's plant will make only anhydrous ammonia, the new chemical fertilizer that increases crop yields up to 300%. But a 40-man task force of National scientists has been at work for four years developing several new cracking processes that will eventually put United's Florida...
...same contradiction of Murphy's voting record and his program is evident in the highway dispute. Although Murphy complains that the state needs better roads, he voted against the $150 million bond issue passed by the legislature to accelerate the development. While it is possible Murphy would have voted for these proposals under a Democratic administration, he is still guilty of crowding politics before state progress...
PAPER INDUSTRY is in trouble with the Federal Trade Commission over prices. The FTC has issued a cease-and-desist order to the National Paper Trade Association, 22 regional associations, and 100 individual distributors of fine paper (stationery, bond, etc.) and wrapping paper. The charge: that they have combined to establish and maintain price schedules for their products...
...would meet somewhere, but I thought it would be in the poorhouse instead of like this." The occasion was a party in honor of Tojie Harrell and his part in preserving an old Texas tradition: that a Texan's word is as good as his bond. After the ranchers had eaten all the fried chicken they could hold and had sung themselves hoarse, they gave him a "cow shower" as a token of their esteem: a brand-new ranch Jeep and a truckload of 25 prime Angus calves...