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...publicly offer for sale a controlling interest in Japan's second largest automaker. What must have been even more humiliating is that when Nissan's suitors looked under the hood, they became even less interested in this clunker, with its $22 billion in debt and a lineup of flashless cars. The word around the car industry is that the $49 billion company ought to be left to wither. Says James Harbour, a doyen of automobile analysts: "A merger with Nissan is absolutely the worst idea I've ever heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nissan Calls For A Tow | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...Hercules Powder Co. of Wilmington was assigned Patent No. 2,228,309 for an artillery gunpowder which is smokeless, moisture-resistant and flashless. Other such powders have been developed but they are complicated, costly, hard to handle. The new powder contains only three ingredients: nitrocellulose, dinitrotoluene, diphenylamine. These are treated with an alcohol-acetone solvent, mixed, squirted out in strands like spaghetti, finally pulverized to grain size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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