Word: carbone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the average amount ranges from a quart to a quart and a half a day. Some of the gas is plain air, of which a little is swallowed unconsciously, especially at meal times and in emptying the mouth of saliva. Another gas usually ingested in harmless quantities is carbon dioxide, from the bubbles in soft drinks and the soda in Scotch and soda. But the body is also a versatile gas factory. By fermentation and similar processes, it can manufacture an excess of carbon dioxide, as well as hydrogen, methane (all odorless) and hydrogen sulfide (which has an unpleasant...
...total, produce either too much or too little gastric acid. Shortage of acid favors establishment of abnormal bacteria that ferment food in the intestines; this condition usually can be corrected by medicine containing dilute hydrochloric acid. Hyperacidity and peptic ulcer may lead to an excess production of carbon dioxide, and hence to flatulence, through the interaction of gastric acid on bicarbonates from the digestive juices. Standard ulcer medicines -antacids in liquid or tablet form-and diet should relieve this type of gaseousness...
...Negro gets what he wants. White America is only beginning to understand the new Negro mood, which is passing from the self-abasement that slavery taught to the self-sufficiency that lies still over a distant hill. The black is learning how to be black, rather than a carbon-copy white. And the pride, the new Negro institutions, the black cooperatives and the black student groups are all testimonials to his new spirit of independence. They will pass as the need for them declines, and as the Negro develops the respect for himself that will embolden him to demand...
...told the whole history of the building, right down to the names of the plumbers. He was able to reproduce exactly the original straight-backed chairs with their wrought-iron sides and champagne-colored plush, found one of the two manufacturers in the world who still make the old carbon-filament bulbs that gave the theater its soft, golden glow. He came across a piece of the original carpet, had it copied to the last detail. Rummaging through the basement, he found crates containing six stained-glass windows thought to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who had worked...
Executive Fords. Since taking over, Blazer and Atkins have expanded with such acquisitions as United Carbon Co. of Houston, the O.K. Tire and Rubber Co., Valvoline Oil, the $96 million chemical operations of Archer Daniels Midland Co., and Warren Brothers Co. of Cambridge, Mass., the nation's largest asphalt-paving company. Meanwhile, Ashland executives including the chairman continue to occupy modest offices and drive low-priced cars. Says Blazer proudly: "We have probably the only executive parking lot in the country filled only with Fords, Chevrolets and Plymouths...