Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Concession to the Dead. Bridges had been itching for the showdown since last spring. He was restrained for 80 days by an injunction obtained under the Taft-Hartley Act. When the injunction ran out last week, shippers offered Bridges a carbon copy of the agreement which had been accepted by East Coast, Gulf and Great Lakes unions: let the hiring halls operate as before, until the courts rule on their legality...
Hydrogen and its helium "ashes," while by far the most abundant, are not the only chemical elements which can be detected by sharp-eyed astronomers. The "main sequence" stars have, identically the same-composition as the sun: for every atom of any metal there are some six atoms of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, 500 atoms of helium, and 5,000 atoms of hydrogen (still to be burned). The same proportions of atoms exist in the near vacuum of interstellar space. Not only do the universe's largest bodies behave in much the same fashion as its smallest atoms...
...these were more than made up for by profit increases in food, chemicals, coal, paper, utilities, manufacturing. Some typical nets: $3,543,627 for National Cash Register (up 35%); $24,041,851 for Union Carbide. & Carbon (up 41%). Some exceptional ones: $5,742,000 for General Foods (up 290%), $706,887 for radio-making Admiral Corp...
...made canals. 2. Definite evidence of trees and bushes. 3. Solid carbon dioxide. 4. Only solid rock formations. 5. Water in the solid state...
...steam was used to concentrate boric acid brought to the surface by natural soffioni (blowholes). In 1905 it ran a steam engine and a 20-kilowatt generator. A sizable industry has grown up around Larderello, producing borax, carbon dioxide and ammonia as well as power. Italian geologists believe that the output, both of chemicals and power, can be increased considerably, hence the new power plant...