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...Miracle Man," as doctors and nurses have come to call him, seemed to have something wrong with an artery. To get a clearer picture, the doctors decided to inject a dye into the artery. At 1:30 p.m. on March 15, the patient was wheeled into the X-ray room and anesthetized with sodium pentothal. Before Surgeon J. Cuthbert Owens could inject the dye, the patient began to turn blue. His heart had stopped...
...rayon. Black gunpowder (once Du Pont's prime product) is now so obsolete that the company, which formerly operated 25 black gunpowder plants, has closed all but one. But in assets Du Pont is as big as the next three chemical companies (Union Carbide & Carbon, Allied Chemical & Dye and Dow Chemical) put together...
ALLIED CHEMICAL & DYE CORP., with dozens of new postwar products, including insecticides, weed killers and dyes, set a new earnings record of $41.2 million v. $37.1 million...
...Wind. It was an ill wind, in fact a hurricane, which blew Ottinger into the plywood business. Part of his father's $100,000 had been used to buy a big grove of gum trees near Corbin, La., in an experiment to dye living trees to make the wood look like mahogany. The experiment worked but nobody wanted to buy the wood, so Ottinger lost his shirt. When a hurricane blew down so many nearby oak trees that Ottinger got them just for hauling them away, he found himself in the lumber business. He became such a lumber expert...
During a flight of eloquence in the House of Commons on the prospect of increased duck production, Sidney Dye, Labor member for Norfolk South-West, last week declared: "Ducks greedily devour wireworms and leather jackets, thus ridding the soil of these pests. It may well be that those who eat the ducks can readily assimilate the robust characteristics of these other creatures. If so, may I commend to His Majesty's Ministers the value of ducks and green peas for a regular place in their diet...