Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Union Carbide & Carbon announced a profit of $8,111,897 for the three months through September, biggest third quarter since 1929 and nearly $2,000,000 more than it made in the same period last year. Union Carbide has absorbed Recovery at every pore...
...liberties with one's mind, and that is the point; the higher parts of the central nervous system were the first things to suffer." In similar vein at Yale last week Sir Joseph recalled how he had sat in a room suffused almost to the killing point with carbon dioxide gas. Of this odorless gas which appears, among other places, in the exhaled breath of all animals, Sir Joseph declared: "The highest percentage which I know to have been breathed experimentally was 11%, and that for a short time by Mr. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane. Dr. Rodolfo Margaria...
...samples. Now the interesting point is not that these errors occurred, though that is quite significant, but that I could have gone into a court of law and sworn that one at least of the two was correctly taken. On the occasion on which we had been in 10% carbon dioxide, when I came out I was retaining my grip of things only with an effort...
...values in the towns of New Straitsville and Shawnee and environs have dropped because of smoke and noxious gases. Roadways have sunk as much as five feet and at danger points signs warn motorists to proceed at their own risk. Miners in nearby active workings have been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide seeping through from the fiery shafts. Occupants of twelve houses" near New Straitsville were evacuated when the foundations buckled. The town's $80,000 schoolhouse is considered in danger. A farmer named Rush dug roasted potatoes out of his ruined garden. Twelve million tons of coal have been...
Bubble Massage. The main curative agent in natural springs is the carbon dioxide which bubbles through the waters, said Dr. Franz Maximilian Groedel, one-time director of the Kerckhoff Institute, Bad Nauheim, Germany, now adviser to the vast bathing establishment at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1935). The gas bubbles, he explained, burst against the skin, massaging certain nerves. The stimulated nerves dilate blood vessels. Some of the gas is absorbed into the tissues and acts on the superficial capillaries causing them to fill. The skin reddens and the increased flow of blood benefits because it relieves...