Word: containerized
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Grum, the new executive vice president, graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and the Wharton School. He was vice president for finance at Temple Industries when Time Inc. acquired that Texas-based forest products firm in 1973. He later served as treasurer of Time Inc. and publisher of FORTUNE...
During the eleven-year tenure of Heiskell and Shepley, Time Inc. has grown rapidly and diversified broadly. In the past three years alone, it acquired Inland Container, American Television and Communications Corp. (the nation's second largest cable-TV company), Book-of-the-Month Club and the Washington Star...
To catch these particles, the physicists placed a sealed container of deuterium, or heavy water, 11.2 meters (37 ft.) from the reactor. Immersed in the liquid were ten helium-filled tubes wired to an external oscilloscope. The detection apparatus was shielded in lead and cadmium cylinders and a foot-thick...
Late in the 11th century, Shang rule was supplanted by the Zhou dynasty, and one of the museum's outstanding exhibits is a stolid bronze vessel whose inscription records that it was cast on the eighth day after the Zhou victory. The Met is still amazed that the Chinese...
N-butyl mercaptan is a light petroleum liquid whose skunklike odor is so foul that it is used for detecting leaks in natural-gas pipelines. Now a Texas entrepreneur named J.W. Small is promoting it as a rape repellent. Rapel, as his $9.95 product is called, is an inch-long...