Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets tired of hearing about the "imminent breakthrough" in the war against the common-cold virus. This war has failed because of the fundamental delusion that a virus is the principal cause of colds, everyday experience notwithstanding. The fact is that a common cold is due to an overwhelming, generalized vasodilation of the body's capillaries, brought on by a combination of factors such as exposure, overeating, oversleeping, alcohol, viruses, dust, frustration. Thus the typical candidate for a common cold is a man who on Saturday night ate a big dinner, followed by several alcoholic drinks, then took...
What saved the company was a breakthrough by Engineer Seymour Cray in the emerging field of solid-state computers. By using transistors instead of vacuum tubes, and cheap printed circuits instead of miles of intricate wiring, Cray developed Control Data's reliable and relatively cheap ($1,250,000) 1604 computer, thus enabling the company to introduce its solid-state computer on the commercial market neck and neck with the industry giants. But with success came new headaches. Sperry Rand, alleging that Norris & Co. were using pirated Sperry Rand trade secrets, sued to enjoin them from capitalizing on any more...
...another breakthrough in fuel technology, the hard pressed U.S. coal industry moved a step closer to economica11y attractive pipeline transportation of its product. Since 1957 Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. has fueled one of its generating plants with coal slurry (a mixture of crushed coal and water) brought in through a 108-mile pipeline from Consolidation Coal Co.'s Cadiz, Ohio, mine...
Deciding that Gonzalez would indeed be good for them, the voters elected him by a substantial margin, crushing Republican hopes for another breakthrough in Democratic Texas...
Last week Peter Pan Foundations, Inc. was proudly claiming to have achieved a breakthrough-a bra without any seams at all. The secret is in a new drip-dry Chemstrand nylon fiber, which, once molded, holds its shape forever. To make the bra, the lace cloth is laid over a metal replica of a well-shaped bosom. Another form, hollowed out like an Iron Maiden, clamps down and presses the cloth against the model bosom. (Most bras are cut to size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material...