Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blitz on Bauxite. In eight years, the President had taught Adolf Hitler nothing; but he had learned plenty from the Führer. The U.S. occupation of Dutch Guiana was as quick, cool, and as foresighted a step of getting to a vulnerable spot before the enemy seized it as Hitler himself could have planned. But unlike Hitler's aggressions it was made with the full consent of the other parties concerned: Brazil, the British, The Netherlands Government. The White House is sued a brief statement: The bauxite mines in Surinam furnish about 60% of the metal vital...
...gave the islanders eight U.S. "weaknesses" showing that it is no match for Japan: 1) the national debt; 2) a "spoiled child mentality"; 3) low national morale (at the first defeat Taft, Nye & Lindbergh will lead a revolt); 4) Roosevelt, "a buffoon"; 5) hesitancy; 6) "Americans excite easily and cool easily"; 7) disunity-with 20,000,000 Negroes, 10,000,000 unemployed, 5,000,000 trade unionists; 8) inflation...
...picture of NBC as a human phenomenon would be framed by its Radio City home-with a slablike, grand exterior and an interior like a rabbit warren. The characters would include hundreds of cool whee-eeking charm, technicians, not-so-cool directors, musicians, nervous clockwatchers and imperturbable stenographers, "vice presidents" of notorious number. It would include hopeful actors, agency men, press agents, uniformed guards and guides and endless parties of shuffling visitor...
Still more significant was his new theory of the nature of that framework. When molten glass is allowed to cool slowly enough to crystallize, it loses its transparency. Cooled more rapidly, it remains clear. So science has assumed that it is amorphous, a patternless collection of molecules, constituting a sort of stiffened liquid. In fact the classic definition of glass is "a liquid whose rigidity is great enough to enable it to be put to certain useful purposes." Dr. Pincus believes that the structure of glass is neither amorphous nor crystalline but somewhere between, with its atoms symmetrically arranged...
...West on two other very common ores, brucite (Mg(OH)2) and magnesite (MgCO3). When either of these is baked it forms magnesium oxide, and the trick is first to vaporize this by heating it to 3,800° F. in the presence of carbon and then cool it to around 380° in 1/1000th of a second with a blast of cold gas. During the heating, the carbon takes the oxygen away from the magnesium, and during the cooling the magnesium is precipitated as a fine powder too fast to recombine with the oxygen. This is called the Hansgirg...