Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liquor, chemicals, textiles and building materials, profits improved almost without exception; utilities and food packaging were not far behind. In most cases, profit margins were no higher than last year, but volume was up. Some typical nets: $23 million for Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (up 20% over the first quarter of 1947); $1.5 million for National Gypsum (up 15%); $2.1 million for Wm. Wrigley...
Unknown Hazards. Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., already operating Y-12 and K-25 for the Government on a cost-plus basis, recently took over X-io on the same terms. When it did, it tried to reduce the X-10 higher wage rates to the same level as the other plants. Some 800 X-10 employees objected. Employment at X-10 was supposed to involve hazards of "a largely unknown nature...
...hours before a midnight strike deadline, the Government took a step under Taft-Hartley. For the first time in the history of the act it slapped down an injunction. The injunction kept the 800 workers at their jobs, forbade Carbide & Carbon from changing the conditions of the old contract. The length of the injunction: 80 days. Meanwhile the Government will look for some way to mend the first labor fission in the atomic world...
...Alamine. A radioactive isotope of carbon has carried three doctors from Boston's Huntington Hospital a little farther toward showing just how cancer cells and normal cells differ. Drs. P. C. Zamecnik, I. D. Frantz Jr., and R. B. Loftfield tagged a protein-building amino acid called l-alzmine with the isotope, watched what cancer tissue and normal liver tissue did with it in test tubes. They found that cancerous livers absorbed the amino acid much faster than normal livers. Eventually, their experiments might help explain why cancer cells grow disastrously faster than normal cells...
...Though the industry had declared that the boost would not affect finished steel, Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. had already found it necessary to boost the price of one finished product (carbon steel strip) by $10 a ton. "It would appear likely," observed the Justice Department, "that other purchasers of semi-finished steel products will find it necessary to do [the same], namely, to pass on these increases to the consumers...