Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth-floor room in the shell-pocked Duna Hotel. Phone service was disrupted, but the Western correspondents were able to file brief pooled dispatches on the only Teletype circuit to Vienna left intact. To get out the full, running narrative of Hungary's deathwatch, Jones ran off five carbon copies of his stories, sent them out with acquaintances, passers-by and an Austrian black-marketeer. So effective was their improvisation that the first big convoy of correspondents who arrived in Austria with eyewitness accounts of the Soviet counterattack in Budapest found that Jones, Marton and Reuters' Farquhar...
...technical papers on it by U.S. doctors were rare (though European work on it filled volumes). There were safeguards of sorts against physical accidents, but for a workman who spent years absorbing a slow but deadly poison, there was little thought. Dr. Hamilton had heard of men choked by carbon monoxide in the steel mills, of men palsied by white lead poisoning, of others disabled by arsenic and cyanides, of men with the "bends." To Alice Hamilton's socialist conscience, all this was outrageous...
Apparent cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, but no coroner's report has been isued as yet. The funeral will be held Monday morning in Philadelphia...
Britain, short of fuel for her rapidly growing industries, needs atomic power more than the U.S. or Russia. In trying to get it as quickly as possible, British scientists have settled for a comparatively primitive reactor, which uses natural uranium for fuel and is cooled by pressurized carbon dioxide. As they gain experience, Britain's atomic engineers plan to shift to more advanced reactors...
...chemicals, there were more drops than rises. American Cyanamid's thirdquarter earnings rose 24% over last year's to $10,751,819, and Atlas Powder went from $928,010 in '55 to $1,059,291 in J56's third quarter. But Union Carbide & Carbon fell to $32,148,446 (from $37,821,-591 last year); Du Pont dropped to $1.99 a share from $2.26 in last year's third quarter; Allied Chemical & Dye declined...