Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice with no frills (he does not even own a white coat), Dr. Cook is not the type to make a habit of long-distance diagnosis. But of Bob's letter he said: "It was a perfect case history, and a clear message to me." That message was "carbon monoxide poisoning." And 90 miles away, firemen who found a blocked furnace ventilator pipe that was forcing carbon monoxide back into the cottage made the final confirmation of Dr. Cook's diagnosis...
...strange double molecules synthesized by Polaroid's chemists. The molecules are shaped roughly like dumbbells. Each of them has at one end a submolecule of photographic developer. At the other end is a submolecule of brilliantly colored dye. Connecting the dye and developer is a strong chain of carbon atoms...
...being proved out, Eliot indulges himself in many a long reach. Aphrodite, goddess of love, was able to renew her virginity simply by bathing in the sea. Now "astrophysicists relate that our life-giving sun renews its virginity also, by dint of a circular chain reaction. Every nucleus of carbon and nitrogen in the sun returns to its pure state once in five million years." This is ingenious rather than convincing, provocative rather than wise. And in his secret heart, Eliot knows it for the word game it is. But like the juggler who danced before the altar, Eliot...
...live with the uneasy knowledge that at any moment their traditional markets may be snatched away by an advanced new product developed in the research laboratories of some corporate giant. Ten years ago this nightmare came true for Brooklyn's Old Town Corp. A modestly successful manufacturer of carbon paper, typewriter ribbons and duplicating products, Old Town suddenly found its bigger competitors selling radically improved typewriter ribbons and speedy office photocopy machines that sharply reduced the demand for carbon paper. Helplessly the firm watched its business slip, until in 1960 it lost $289,000 on sales...
...Carbon & Kitty Hawk. He was born in 1861 and, of course, was given the best sort of education. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 16, switched to Harvard, graduated magna cum laude in 1882 (the year Franklin Delano Roosevelt, perish the name, was born), went on to Zurich for further studies. Later, he journeyed into Pennsylvania looking for likely investments in oil and gas. Cabot concluded that there was money to be made in byproducts from the refining process. As usual, his judgment turned out to be correct. In 1887 he began manufacturing carbon black as a coloring...