Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public list of gadgets for locating castaways at sea (Very pistols, dye markers, a hand-cranked automatic radio, etc.) the U.S. Navy added another that has vastly more range and accuracy than al] the rest. The latest, perfected too late for use in World War II but due for plenty of use, nevertheless, is a long-range underwater sound system called Sofar (Sound Fixing and Ranging...
...that folded too, Zevin joined World Publishing, then headed by his father-in-law, Alfred Cahen. World was mass-producing cheap Bibles, dictionaries and one-volume Shakespeares as retailers' premiums. Zevin felt that people would buy cheap books even when they did not come with coffee and hair dye. But he felt, with the late Al Smith, that there was a catch in it: "Who the hell ever goes into a bookstore...
...solution of the dye, malachite green, injected before a brain operation, will temporarily dye diseased brain tissue, but has no effect on healthy brain tissue. The British surgeon who uses it to help guide his knife has to reassure his patients beforehand: their skin and eyeballs will get over being green in a few days...
...struggling in shark-infested waters. Its inventors knew that sharks are repelled by a dead and decaying shark. An extract of rotten shark proved even more effective. Eventually, the active substance so offensive to sharks turned out to be a chemical which people don't mind. A black dye was added to the brew, just to give the sharks a good visual scare...
Died. Orlando Franklin Weber, 66, longtime (1920-1934) autocratic president of whopping, $500,000,000 Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., which he and Eugene Meyer organized after World War I as a holding and operating company surpassing any European competitor; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Socialist labor leader, Tycoon Weber had such a fetish for secrecy that no firm member could appear in Who's Who or have his picture taken for publication. Not until the New York Stock Exchange threatened in 1933 to remove Allied's 2,400,000 shares from its lists...