Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means mystifying to zealous ground crews, the bugs began to come out. Sample exterminations: ¶ The B-29's big engines were exploding when they caught fire. Dr. William J. Crozier, a Harvard physiologist, suspected that the magnesium-alloy parts blew up when they were doused by the carbon dioxide in the automatic fire extinguishers. Tests proved him right, and combat crews were immediately instructed to use their extinguishers at the first slight hint of fire, or not at all. Later, aluminum alloys were substituted for the magnesium-alloy parts...
...Cowles began by asking himself: why did the dinosaur become extinct? Dismissing the usual theories (the dinosaur's unwieldy size, an increase in the earth's carbon dioxide, etc.) Dr. Cowles decided that it was much more likely that dinosaurs simply perished of a declining birth rate-just stopped breeding during an interglacial heat wave. Last week he was ready to document his theory that there is a definite relation between heat and male fertility...
...tons of carbon steel, which the first V-E cutbacks will release, will be almost all chewed up filling these needs...
...Pepe Le Moko," from which United Artists made "Algiers" in 1938, is in most ways a better picture than its carbon copy. United Artists knew a good thing when they saw it, and they took large chunks--still recognizable shots, and in some cases apparently the very same sets--of the French original as a backdrop for Boyer, Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie, and Gene Lockbart...
...same part. Charles Boyer tried to drive Ingrid mad in "Gaslight" to gain her wealth. Similarly accented Paul Lukas tries to pull the same stunt in "Experiment Perilous," but with no apparent motive. Almost as a trick ending, it develops that a page has been substituted in this carbon copy: Lukas is mentally unsound, which doesn't really change much...