Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bacteria can even live on paraffin, asphalt and natural gas, says Dr. Beerstecher. Sometimes the ground above an oil pool is greasy with a substance that oil prospectors call "paraffin dirt." This is mostly the fat-rich bodies of bacteria that prospered for years on trickles of natural gas seeping up through the soil. Dr. Beerstecher believes that bacteria can be trained like truffle hounds to find oil under the ground. His proposal: expose gas-eating bacteria to air taken from below the soil; if they grow, it will prove that the air contains gas and that chances are good...
...great industry built on the fermentation of hydrocarbons by specially trained bacteria. Some of them will turn petroleum or natural gas into valuable organic compounds too complicated to be produced by man's simple chemical processes. Others will graze on hydrocarbons like microscopic cattle. Their harvested bodies, fat and nutritious, will serve as food for man and his larger cattle...
There was considerable evidence last week that the seduction is getting results, and that West German practitioners are moving across to East Germany at the rate of several hundred a year to work under renewable one-year contracts. The bait: salaries that are fat by current West German standards (up to 5,000 East marks), promises of religious freedom, quick promotions, no restrictions on movement in and out of East Germany. Especially good doctors are not forced into political activities, need not even join the party. The best doctors are promised an extra bourgeois dividend upon their arrival: a free...
Back at sea level Izzard was 18 lbs. lighter, but pounds (sterling) richer in bonus money. His feat made fat headlines and dazzling copy. It also gave him a clean beat on the Times, during the first crucial days of the expedition that conquered Mount Everest, though the Times beat everyone on the big story, the climb to Everest's summit...
...corruption of a nation's soul. Few scenes are memorable in themselves, but the cumulative effect is poignant and powerful. A wisp of a girl in a chemical plant manned by forced labor is raped by the foreman, goes mad, and hangs herself. Gurgling with vodka, the fat cats of the Rostov central committee storm the local ballet school, and as they pinch and paw the trembling girls, tell them the facts of Soviet life: "The Government keeps you, pays you, looks after you without end. Now you're going to pay some of it back...