Word: dust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich bituminous coal still underground, conveyors and tipples are being sold for scrap metal; white-frame company towns such as Red Bud, Golden Ash and Kenvir are boarded up and rotting; in Closplint and Punkin Center, streets rust-colored from a half century of "red dog"-slate and clinker dust-are quiet and deserted. Miners who could afford to have gone off to Paducah, Louisville, Cincinnati or even Chicago. Others, who could not, are in worse trouble than in the Depression '30s. In Kenvir (pop. 800), where the Peabody Coal Co. closed its mine a year ago and left...
...chief of AFOAT-1, Northrup built a detective force that correlated data from delicate seismographs and from patrol weather planes scooping up radioactive dust over the Pacific (prevailing winds carried Russian bomb particles eastward) for rapid analysis and report. Last week, at award time, Doyle Northrup (who holds a highly select, open-salary PL 313 civil service rating) was in Geneva as a delegate to the three-power conferences on nuclear detection. In his stead, wife Sybil went to the White House, came home with a clearer understanding of why, since 1948, Cloak and Geiger Man Northrup has occasionally been...
...Kozyrev shows a spectrogram with an unusual bright streak, and explains what he thinks happened. The reddish patch over the crater's central peak he believes was caused by volcanic ash shot out of the moon's crust. The dust settled quickly, since there is no air to keep...
...something happen on the moon, but it may have been merely a jet of gas breaking out of a crevice. Physicist J. H. Fremlin of the University of Birmingham, England theorized in this week's Nature that if the bottoms of lunar craters are deeply covered with dust, as many astronomers think, they are likely places for gas eruptions. The dust layer, says Fremlin, would be a good heat insulator. It would trap under the crater's floor the heat generated by radioactivity in the moon's rock. Many times in a million years the rock might...
About the time disulfiram (Antabuse) was hailed by Danish doctors as a wonder drug for alcoholism, plant physicians began hearing complaints that workers recently exposed to dust in the manufacture of calcium cyanamide*could not take a drink-it made them sick. Disulfiram proved a disappointment: it was too dangerous for widespread use, required a doctor's close supervision. But last week a medicinal variant of cyanamide was released in Canada for prescription sale, on the strength of researchers' reports that it is almost as potent as disulfiram and far safer...