Word: extract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Samuel B. Mosher, 77, founder of The Signal Companies, a conglomerate with sales that topped $1.5 billion last year; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In 1922, armed with $4,000 and an instruction pamphlet from the Bureau of Mines, Mosher constructed a small unit to extract natural gasoline from the "wet gas" found in the Signal Hill field near Los Angeles. Within five years, he was selling 34 million gallons annually to major oil companies. He went on to help found Flying Tiger airlines, bought interests in American President Lines, the aerospace industry's Garrett Corp., Mack...
Hollywood has never had much luck with pineapples, and neither has Charlton Heston. He planted his first crop in Diamond Head, but all that came up was a lot of white imperialism. Heston missed the pulpy movie extract of James Michener's novel Hawaii, but he is back to brandish his riding crop in the in-florescent sequel, The Hawaiians...
...Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where Microbiologist Gerald Taylor had been looking for signs of lunar life by exposing moon soil to hundreds of life-enticing mixtures of gases and nutrients. After 67 days in a brew called TGY -made up of an enzyme, a sugar and a yeast extract-the soil showed no signs of life, so Taylor added the three bacteria to the mix to see if lunar soil affected their growth rate. In mixtures containing surface samples from both Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 and core samples from 12, the single-celled plants continued to reproduce normally. But when...
...little effort, we could probably extract ?? ?theme. While the loss of student identity ?? ?creaming through on mass-processing days ?? yesterday, the kids aren't the only ones who ?? have suffered. The extent to which everyone at ?? Harvard-the once-respected Faculty as well as the ?? ?ansient students-is having his humanity squeezed ?? ?ay is one of the truly depressing phenomena of ?? last few years...
...adopt Kempe's proposal for a near-total halt to mass vaccination, potent agents for reducing its ravages are already available. One is a safer vaccine that Kempe has devised. Before that, or something like it, comes into general use, doctors can still use a VIG gamma globulin extract, vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), which contains antibodies from recently vaccinated blood donors, to protect the very young and those in poor health who have to be vaccinated. The value of VIG is well established; it has been stocked for years in 15 Red Cross regional blood banks for distribution...