Word: carbonation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artificial heart-lung. There, one pump drew in the blood. Another speeded it to an oxygen chamber, where it flowed over a set of metal grids like the plates in a storage battery. Electronic controls kept the flow rate just right, made sure that oxygen was added and carbon dioxide taken away. in exact amounts, and even kept the blood at the proper degree of acidity. A third pump sent the refreshed blood back into an artery above the left side of Cecelia's heart...
...expected, U.S. Steel and the other major producers last week announced an increase in the price of steel. There was no across-the-board boost. Instead, the increase was in "extras," i.e., charges tacked on base prices for special processing of such products as carbon steel bars and rails. The rise in extras, steel users estimated...
This week Union Carbide & Carbon's Bakelite Co. brought the prediction closer to reality. President Howard S. Bunn announced the biggest single expansion program in the history of the plastics industry. The company will spend some $100 million on three new poly plants (in Texas City and Seadrift, Texas, and Torrance, Calif.), thus double present U.S. output- and more than triple...
...state of the commodity market. Colgate's net was up 46%. The chemical industry was also up. Du Pont showed a 14% increase in sales ($440 million) and a 12% increase in profits ($53.9 million) over 1952's first quarter. While the second biggest company, Union Carbide & Carbon, was not far behind (sales up 12% and profits up 10%), some of the biggest gains were rung up by the smaller companies. Thus Mathieson Chemical's $4,700,000 net was a 79% increase, Rohm & Haas's $1,700,000 a 28% increase...
Died. Gertrude Maynard Anderson, 48, Canadian-born exactress, and second wife of Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Maxwell (Both Your Houses, Winterset) Anderson; by her own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning) ; near New City...