Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cooler Here...
...crystal (it may be only a sliver) is suspended near the top. When the bottom of the bomb is heated to 750°F., and the pressure raised to 15,000 Ibs. per sq. in., the ground quartz dissolves. Its molecules diffuse through the solution. When they reach the cooler top of the chamber, they deposit one by one on the "seed," building it into a perfect, transparent crystal which is more uniform, and therefore more useful, than any made by nature...
...darkened building in Boston's old North End, five men worked behind a wire screen, piling up plump sacks of U.S. currency with the mechanical indifference of butchers stacking daisy hams into a cooler. It was 7 o'clock-time for the Boston office of Brink's, Inc. to tot up the day's armored-truck collections and lock them in the vault for the night...
...Clink! As the drivers stampeded from the gas-filled hall, cops laid about them with clubs and rifle butts. Two drivers were trampled to death, 23 others badly injured. While the wounded were piled into waiting ambulances, 366 drivers were carted off to join their brothers in jail. Cooler and clearer heads soon prevailed. Spokesmen for the strikers promised that they would go peacefully back to work; the arrested drivers were released on probation. At week's end, the cabs had reappeared, but the cabbies had as many grievances as ever. The row between...