Word: carbonates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly's provisional 60-point agenda read like a slightly smudged carbon copy of last year's. The big items were the painful old perennials, which various committees and commissions were tossing back to the Assembly: Indonesia, on which the Dutch are wearily trying to reach agreement with the Republicans; Korea, whose well-armed Northern Communist regime has refused even to admit U.N. commissioners into its territory; Israel, which is protesting violently against a U.N. plan to internationalize Jerusalem...
Touring a rubber factory (nonunion) he laid out his labor line. The Taft-Hartley Act was designed to cut down the power of labor bosses, he explained, just as the Sherman Act had been designed to cut down the power of covetous industrialists. Carbon-begrimed workers, some of them Amishmen with stony faces and beards, listened carefully and thoughtfully applauded...
...square inch at 4,500 feet. It also has a new three-inch quartz window, slanted toward the bottom; the Bathysphere had side windows only. It carries a six-hour supply of oxygen in cylinders, fans to keep the air circulating, and trays of soda lime to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by breathing...
...bill before the House was almost a carbon copy of the housing bill already passed by the Senate, which had the support of many Republicans-including Robert Taft (TIME, May 2). But in the House, a group of Republicans led by Minority Leader Joe Martin and Indiana's Charlie Halleck fought the bill every inch of the way. It was, Halleck shouted, "another dangerous plunge in ... our headlong rush to overcentralization of control...
...made of certain amino acid molecules linked together in chains. What they do not know is how the chains are put together. The plan is to find out how the silkworms do it. Professor Williams is injecting mature worms with various amino acids which are made radioactive by carbon 14. After a while the worms start spinning their cocoons. If their silk turns out radioactive, it may prove that the particular amino acids injected by Professor Williams were used to form its protein...