Word: carbon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commonest (ninth most abundant) but least used metallic elements. Hard, heat-resistant (melting point: 1,845° C.), almost corrosion-proof, zirconium cost $315 a Ib. as late as 1945, was a laboratory curiosity beyond the purse of U.S. industry. In the postwar years, National Lead Co., Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. and others learned to produce commercial-grade zirconium as a hardening material for steel (1,500,000 Ibs. at $10 a Ib. was shipped in 1955). But in 1948, with the start of the atomic power plant program, the AEC found it needed almost pure zirconium. Since it does...
...rate is apt to be higher in the man. The physical activity alone is not enough to account for this high acceleration of heartbeat; emotion does the rest. ¶ The breathing rate, normally 15 to 18 a minute, triples. As a result of this over-breathing, the body loses carbon dioxide too rapidly. This may explain the occasional rigidity of the arm and leg muscles -previously noted by Sexologist Alfred Kinsey (TIME, Aug. 24, 1953). ¶ The increases in heart and breathing rates up to orgasm and the gradual decline afterward are remarkably closely synchronized in the partners. ¶ Electrocardiograms...
...record, lost only 9% with net earnings of $283 million for the first quarter. Ford's net dropped 28% below last year to $73,700,000, but it was still the second-best first quarter in the company's history. ¶ In chemicals, Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. touched new high ground with first-quarter sales of $310 million, up 18%, and earnings of $36.2 million, up 28% over 1955. ¶ In steel, demand was still racing far ahead of supply. Operating at 110% of rated capacity, Jones & Laughlin had earnings of $13.6 million, up 40%; Republic Steel...
Drafts for Commencement orations must be submitted by noon, April 16, at Holyoke House 10, Walter J. Bate, chairman of the Committee on Commencement Parts, announced last night. Two copies of the draft, an original and a carbon, must be submitted...
...felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural History, who is the leading authority on Swanscombe man. Last week Dr. Oakley announced that the black objects are carbon, probably charcoal from the campfires of shadowy Swanscombe man. If the first Englishmen possessed fire, they must have climbed quite a way in cultural development...