Word: cashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago, five Glaoui sons gathered at Marrakech to divvy up the sprawling wealth El Glaoui had left. Reportedly there was $17 million in cash lying around the old mud-red palace. There were palaces and houses in virtually every major Moroccan city, stock in lead, cobalt and manganese mines, bank accounts in Paris, London and Geneva. The rumor spread that El Glaoui's sons were maneuvering to block a plan sponsored by Morocco's new government to redistribute the huge land holdings El Glaoui had amassed in southern Morocco...
...associates, most of whom were promptly liquidated. But nervous Boleslaw, casting about for further life insurance, landed in Pax-officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar and plenty of caviar and cognac to drive the blues away. Piasecki did his best to sell the Stalinist brand of anti-Catholic Catholicism. But most of the laity and all of the hierarchy stood firm. Today Pax still...
...Cash men are now building their capsules into dozens of experimental products. They have colorless crayons that make marks only on prepared paper (nice for the kids and the wallpaper). Capsules can be made light-sensitive so that they form a photographic image. They can be magnetized and polarized. Unstable drugs and vitamins can be encapsulated to protect them from air and moisture. Tissue paper impregnated with perfume-filled capsules has no odor until it is rubbed gently on the skin...
Chemical Memory. Some of these applications promise to grow into important businesses, but the Cash research men have long since taken off into wilder blue yonders of capsule science. Most interesting capsules produced so far are filled with a liquid photochromic dye that turns blue when exposed to light of a certain wave length and loses its color when light of another wave length hits it. The Cash men are hard at work building these talented capsules into a "chemical memory" for computing machines. A transparent film impregnated with photochromic capsules can be written upon in coded dots of color...
...Cash men admire their capsules but they are quick to point out that nature produced them before their company got into the game. The cells that form the bodies of living organisms have the same basic function as Cash's capsules. Their walls enclose droplets of highly reactive protoplasm and separate it from the surrounding medium. The walls of nature's cells are permeable to specific chemicals and to electric currents. The Cash men see no reason why their synthetic cells (which are about the same size) should not be trained to behave in this way too. They...