Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inflation danger is real. Food Boss Marvin Jones, too considerate to call in his publicity staff but too worried to wait, went to his empty office on Sunday, typed out an appeal for quick Congressional action on subsidies so that farmers can make their planting plans, personally distributed the carbon copies to press offices...
...inventor of this "electron microanalyzer" is a fledgling still in his late 20s, James Hillier, co-inventor of the electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940). The general atomic composition of bacteria and viruses is well known-they are mostly carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen. But under high electronic magnification (100,000 times), bacteria often reveal granules of previously undetected substances that are hard to identify. The granules are much too small to be analyzed by a spectroscope, the conventional instrument for the quick determination of atomic components...
...from the atoms in the target. Since the energy required to dislodge them varies with the kind of atoms present, the loss of energy in the bombarding electrons after they pass through the substance indicates the nature of the atoms on hand. Thus a loss of 298 volts identifies carbon atoms; 400 volts, nitrogen atoms...
...bother about graduating anyway), and went to work in his father's businesses, James Boyd & Brother, and National Fire Protection Co. He decided to think up a few tricks of his own. He concentrated on chemical foams which, when mixed with water, form a thick, snowy blanket of carbon dioxide bubbles, cutting off oxygen and thus smothering fires...
Mabel Fairbanks is no carbon copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance...