Word: carbonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern campus invests its money: 56% in common stocks, 29.1% in bonds, 5.8% in preferred stocks, 6.4% in mortgages, real estate and plant. Its favorite common stocks: Standard Oil (New Jersey), Christiana Securities, General Motors, General Electric, Du Pont, Standard Oil of California, Texas Co., International Paper, Union Carbide & Carbon, American Telephone & Telegraph...
...same time, to the discomfiture of Malthusians, new fertilizers, insecticides and other chemicals have helped pile up the greatest food surpluses ever. Man has learned to cruise undersea on nuclear power, fly at supersonic speeds; research has trebled the number of metals used by industry, made diamonds from common carbon (see cut), and conjured up thousands of new products...
...research workers, including 100,000 scientists. Across the U.S., new research plants are springing up almost as fast as factories. In the past two months alone, General Motors dedicated its $100 million Technical Center in Detroit; U.S. Steel opened a $10 million laboratory at Monroeville Pa.; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. moved into a $6,000,000 Parma (Ohio) research complex; General Electric completed a $5,000,000 Cleveland laboratory for the study of "psychological and physiological effects of lighting on humans, animals and plants." Other multimillion-dollar research centers are being blueprinted by Ford Motor, General Dynamics' General Atomic...
...history. Is there one vast water-filled cavern system that arcs from Kentucky to Missouri under the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers? (The presence of one distinct species of blind fish in widely dispersed caves in the region implies such a linkage.) Why is Texas' Kiser Cave full of carbon dioxide? (Three airmen, equipped with oxygen tanks, almost died trying in vain to find the answer.) Do cave-dwelling bats have a burial ground to which they fly when feeling ready for death? (As many as 30 million bats live in a single cave, but few dead bats are ever...
...mentioned certain companies as having begun programs in the past years, "such as Gillette, Standard Oil of Indiana, General Foods, General Mills, Union Carbon and Carbide and Sylvania, to mention only...