Word: carbonated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another big corporation last week was planning to move its headquarters out of noisy, expensive, traffic-jammed Manhattan. Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. said it would buy a 280-acre estate in Westchester County, 20 miles from the big city, provided that zoning laws are changed to permit Carbide to construct office buildings costing $12,500,000 for its 2,500 head-office employees. The company thought that its workers would be happier in the Westchester hills than in "the canyons of New York...
Died. Henry Herschel Brickell, 62, writer (Cosecha Colombiana), editor (O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories, 1941-51), and for two years (1944-46) assistant chief of the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation in charge of Latin America; by his own hand (carbon monoxide); in Ridgefield, Conn...
...laboratory at the University of Chicago, a pinch of powdered carbon was placed in a radiation counter. Chemistry Professor Willard F. Libby carefully measured its faint radioactivity,* made his calculation and gave his verdict: the charred oak from which the carbon came was 3,800 years old-give or take about 275 years...
...From carbon 14, which is formed in the atmosphere by cosmic rays and is taken up by living plants. It loses half its strength in some 5,600 years, and so indicates the date when organic matter, such as wood, was formed...
...year except 1951's alltime record; afterward, they were the lowest of any year since 1946's marginal, reconversion-battered first quarter. Some of the typical casualties: General Motors' net off 10%, U.S. Steel's 10%, Du Font's 15%, Union Carbide & Carbon's 20%, U.S. Rubber's 30%, topped by Libbey-Owens-Ford...