Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could avoid fascinated and furtive speculation as to just how much the Treasury would stand in the way of claims for reimbursement. The Government, which got enough milk from enough mice to make a very large cheese, pretended not to notice hidden flaws in the citizen's moral fiber. It maintained a bland and jolly attitude about the whole thing and publicly assumed that every man was rushing to the mailbox with a scrupulously honest accounting of his financial status. But from behind this smiling front, it watched the populace beadily; the Internal Revenue Bureau already...
When Burlington Mills Corp. (Bur-Mil), largest U.S. weaver of rayon goods, slashed its prices 10% to 25% a fortnight ago, its 52-year-old Chairman J. (for James) Spencer Love made a calculated gamble. He was betting that the price of rayon fiber, which Burlington has to buy to weave its fabrics, would soon come down enough to make up the difference...
Last week it came down. The Celanese Corp. of America, third biggest U.S. yarn producer, trimmed its prices of rayon (acetate staple fiber) by 12.5% to 42? a lb., lowest in its history. As other producers, weavers, converters and jobbers began cutting prices to the new pattern, the whole industry joined in its first big postwar price battle...
...normal state, a nerve cell is like an electrical relay waiting for a signal to send it into action. When the signal (a pulse of energy from another neuron) arrives, the cell "fires." An electrical disturbance starts at its center and travels outward along all its fibers. When the pulse reaches the end of a fiber and touches a fiber of another cell, it may or may not "fire" that cell, too. This selective action is the basis of the brain's operation...
...pronouncing sentence, Federal District Judge William C. Mathes declared grimly: "His life, if spared, would not be worth living. The only worthwhile use for the life of a traitor is to serve as an example to those of weak moral fiber who might hereafter be tempted to commit treason against the U.S." Unless a higher court reverses the verdict or the President intervenes, he will die in the San Quentin gas chamber...