Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spaceship's atmosphere is a problem too. Its oxygen will have to be replaced as it is consumed, and the carbon dioxide from the crew's lungs will have to be disposed of. Both jobs can be done at the same time by green plants, which separate oxygen from carbon dioxide. With this system in operation, the spaceship would be a miniature of the parent earth, where plants and animals, acting together, recycle the atmosphere...
...material expenses edged up. A few passed on their costs to retailers; but most looked for other solutions. One good way to cut costs was by automation, and U.S. businessmen busily installed new pushbutton machines to produce everything from auto engine blocks to electronic printed circuits. To make carbon dioxide, Liquid Carbonic Corp. spent $1.5 million for a new, completely automatic plant in Oakland, Calif, in which two highly skilled technicians produce as much as was formerly turned out by 50 men. At the start of 1955, such automated factories were a great worry to U.S. labor leaders, who feared...
...acre." California's gain was once the East's loss, but 1955's economy was big enough for everyone. In Ohio the growth was little short of phenomenal. The Cleveland area alone counted nearly $500 million in new expansion. Samples: a $31 million Union Carbide & Carbon titanium plant, the world's biggest; a $30 million Ford engine plant expansion, making Cleveland second only to Detroit in Ford's future...
Both apparent suicides died by carbon monoxide poisoning. Smith was visiting relatives at Radnor when he was found in a garage on Christmas Eve, dead from the fumes of the family's automobile. Radnor Police Surgeon Dr. A. J. Pitone gave a verdict of suicide and burial was on Dec. 28, in Whitemarsh, Pa. Smith lived near Amherst, Mass., with his father, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Massachusetts. He was an editor of the CRIMSON...
Woodward was found dead in an automobile in an isolated area near Los Alamos. Coroner's jury determined the cause of death as self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning after friends testified he often spoke of the "thin line between life and death...