Word: carbonation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tunnel. It will be more than -three times as long as the present longest highway tunnel, the 2.16-mile tube under the Mersey at Liverpool, England. A 9-ft. duct under the roadway will bring in fresh air, and a duct in the ceiling, with blowers, will take off carbon monoxide...
...Short, who performed the postmortem, gave as the primary cause of death coronary thrombosis; the secondary cause was carbon monoxide poisoning...
...great haroosh in World War I about men showing all these symptoms but with no injury," he says, "so we looked for such cases in World War II. We never found one. Perhaps later examination showed that the man had had a brain concussion, or died from carbon monoxide produced by the bomb. So-called 'pure shock' may exist, but I haven't seen it. To me, so far, it's a bogy...
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co., which runs the plant for the AEC, says that total employment is now about 4,800. This big drop from the wartime peak of 12,000 represents more automatic machinery, not decreased production. Few of the 4,800 workers are actually inside the production plants themselves. The buildings have four floors, each packed with roaring motors and screaming gas pumps. Some workers pedal on bicycles through the earsplitting loneliness. In the whole enormous plant, which runs continuously, there are only 370 men per shift, including the guards and the laboratory staff...
According to available information, this is not happening now. In the first place, the names of the contractors read like the social register of U.S. industry: General Electric, Du Pont, Union Carbide and Carbon, Monsanto, Westinghouse, Western Electric, etc. Such outfits are intensely jealous of their reputations and go far beyond formal correctness. In spite of the lack of profit motive (Du Pont gets $1 for building the $1,250,000,000 Savannah River Plant), they are working with enthusiasm, diligence and enterprise. They comb through their organizations to find the best men to put on AEC jobs. They...