Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took notes calmly, feeling little emotion. It was all so cold and bare. I wrote: "There are four chambers fed with these small, innocent, pale blue Zyklon crystals which give off cyanide when exposed to air. Two extra chambers for plain carbon monoxide. Maximum simultaneous capacity: 2,000." Kudriavtsev was still explaining: "On one day, Nov. 3, 1943, they annihilated 18,000 people?Poles, Jews, political prisoners and war prisoners...
Under the stress of tiring work or a shortage of oxygen, the cortex (outer layer) of the kidneys' adrenal glands secretes unusual amounts of certain hormones known as 17-ketosteroids (containing one oxygen and 17 carbon atoms). They are discharged in the urine. The investigators discovered that the output of ketosteroids (and of urine) rose in direct proportion to fatigue and loss of efficiency. There was wide variation among individuals; those with the greatest stamina showed the smallest secretion of ketosteroids...
...vacation! In order that the public doesn't get cold to his style while he's resting up from "Lassic Comes Home," Twentieth Century Fox, Shirley Temple's studio, has come up with a substitute, Lonnie MacCallister by name, and has filmed a heart warming, technicolored-trotting-race-carbon copy of the MacDowell pattern...
Inconspicuously in the letter column of the New York World-Telegram appeared last week a letter from Red Cross recreation worker Ethel Gross Hopkins.*She had sent carbon copies to many a newspaper. The letter...
...last week the alcohol process was the brightest spot in the picture. Paced by Carbide & Carbon's plants at Institute, W. Va. and Louisville, Ky., butadiene from alcohol is now actually furnishing 75% of all butadiene. Built last year to produce only 220,000 tons, the plants have been geared up to 150% of capacity, and can turn out an unbelievable 330,000 tons a year. Thus, the alcohol process has shouldered in to take over the big job. Even by the end of the year, when all petroleum butadiene plants will presumably be in production, alcohol will still...