Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanley W. Jacob, 41, of the University of Oregon, says extravagantly that it has other possible uses too fantastic to disclose. The highly purified, medicinal form of DMSO is not yet on the prescription market, but pain-racked arthritis victims have been paying $3.50 an ounce for bootlegged crude commercial DMSO, which may be dangerous...
Died. Joshua Lionel Cowen, 85, inventor of the Lionel electric train, a boyhood tinkerer who got off on the right track by patenting the first flashlight at 19, a year later developed a crude battery-powered wooden train set that proved an instant hit with children's fathers, served as president (1901-45) and later board chairman (1945-57) of the U.S.'s biggest toy train company (sales in 1957: $18,776,862); of a stroke; in Palm Beach...
Himself Proclaimed. Rather than return to school, Gavin enlists in the air-defense service as a medical aide and is thrown among the rude, crude Irish whom he has never known-men who have not had jobs since the Depression. In a whirl of discovery, Gavin joins a Communist theater group, meets a Protestant minister who seems hep but actually is only homo, falls in love for a night with the pathetic and beautiful young wife of a slumming millionaire who had got her man by producing a virgo-intacta medical certificate...
...space program off its pad, and the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration began its talent hunt. Kraft volunteered. He was assigned to study the problems and needs of running ground operations for manned space flight. What he was getting into was a far cry from the crude trailers and optical trackers of his Langley days, but he was ideally suited for the job in both training and temperament. "There's a natural wedding between the technologies of aircraft test flight and space test flight," explains Dr. Robert Gilruth, Kraft's boss at Langley and now director...
...company called Algeco to buy up railroad tank cars at prices ranging from $7,000 to $26,000, then leased the cars to oil companies and skimmed off 20% of the revenue as a management fee. Today Algeco owns more than 8,000 tank cars that haul everything from crude oil to liquid gas all over Europe. Thanks to generous depreciation write-offs and almost constant use of the cars, the investors who own individual railroad cars earn 10% to 12% annually on their money...