Word: carbonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-strapped city out, Mayor La Guardia moaned: "I get the jitters every time I see snow." Because all city life did not come to a standstill Brooklyn Druggist Otto Raubenheimer, a member of the Blizzard Men of '88, jeered: "A mere flurry! This snowstorm is a carbon copy of the blizzard of '88, and a third or fourth carbon copy at that...
...Long Island, with a two-ft. fall, the storm was no carbon copy. The Long Island Railroad completely broke down. Service beyond Jamaica was erratic for 48 hr. Much of the area was without milk and meat deliveries for two days...
This, according to the researchers, is probably what happens: The attacking alpha particle joins a boron atom to form a neutron (which flies off) and an unstable nitrogen atom which in a few seconds or minutes changes to a carbon atom with the release of a positron. Hence, just as the spontaneous radioactivity of radium turns it finally into lead, the end-product of boron's artificial radioactivity is carbon. Not only boron but magnesium and aluminum became radioactive under similar treatment...
...Carbon Atom," Professor Kohler, Mallinckrodt MB22...
...pick & shovel men laying sidewalks, building wharves, working on public parks, chasing starlings (see p. 14) but skilled workers repairing public buildings, women as social workers and dishwashers, actors doing plays for schoolchildren, contract bridge experts teaching the U. S. their game, chemists working at Johns Hopkins to eliminate carbon monoxide fumes from automobiles, and artists decorating public buildings would on that date lose their places on the Federal payroll...