Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chemical industry ... is still fighting the long-dead German dye trust of 1914. [The chemical companies] finance the American Tariff League and repeat the old high-tariff shibboleths. They can't talk any more about infant industries, but they have seized upon defense considerations as their last argument. They even question American technical proficiency in their tariff speeches, while in separate statements they report extraordinary earnings from extraordinary discoveries and processes . . . The imports are . . . less than 17% of American consumption. Are they entitled to a monopoly of the American market...
...electrocardiograph that projects tracings on a wall screen. Also projected are lines showing the pulse, the heart sounds, and the pressure in each side of the heart. Attached to the table is an X-ray machine that will photograph the heart and major blood vessels after opaque dye is injected into the bloodstream. The surgeon can order these projected on a giant screen within minutes after an exposure in order to keep a running check on the effects of the operation...
...Soviet consumer's demand for high quality . . . must become a law." Goods of "monotonous, dull, dark tints and bad designs . . . can no longer be tolerated. Fabrics must be bright, rich and of attractive hue . . ." Far too often, said Mikoyan, "the workers begin to argue: 'We get no dye from the chemists, so what...
...They're easy to spot the first day. The boys wear pistol pants and a lot of them have colored jackets with their gang names on the back. The girls, in Brooklyn anyhow, wear a sort of uniform, too-heavy makeup, long black hair (they dye it if it isn't dark), long, dangling earrings and low shoes that tie halfway up to the knee. But you'd know anyhow-they sit watching you like snakes, waiting for the first sign of weakness. It's frightening when you know that some of the boys carry switchblade...
ALLIED Chemical & Dye Corp., one of the biggest U.S. producers of heavy chemicals, will move into the plastics industry, which has been one of Allied's best customers. For about $10 million, it bought Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.'s Plaskon Division, which supplies resins and other molding materials to fabricators...