Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guthrie grafted a second head onto a dog half a century before the Russians did it in 1959. Carrel kept part of a chicken's heart "alive" in a laboratory flask. But they still could not get organ grafts between two animals to take for any length of time...
...Last member of Congress to be censured was Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954. The last Representative was Thomas Blanton of Texas, who was reprimanded in 1921 for inserting salacious material in the Congressional Record. Blanton also pressured the House Stationery Room to obtain a whisky flask for him-during Prohibition-and then used the flask as an example of the wares available at the Stationery Room...
With receivers as small and totable as a hip flask, one-way radio pagers are now a hot item. Some emit only a beep that tells the recipient to call his office from wherever he is. Others give out a beep-voice combination. Either way, the system is simple in concept: Party A wants to reach Party B, who is nowhere near a telephone. Party A calls a radio-paging center. There, an operator sends out an individually toned beep, or a voice instruction, to Party B, who is wearing a paging device. Party B goes to a telephone...
...first public trading in mercury futures -contracts calling for delivery in a future month of the slippery metal known to mystified ancients, beloved of medieval alchemists, prized by modern industry for everything from thermometers to detonating caps. By his call of 90, Coyne had offered to pay $490 per flask for ten flasks of mercury* to be delivered the month after next. Marcus grabbed at the bid because the price surprised him. "We thought it would open at $480 to $485," he explained...
Uncommon Gyrations. The only common metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures, mercury often shows uncommon price gyrations-in response to floods, strikes, politics, foreign smuggling, or even occasional hijacking of mercury-loaded trucks in the U.S. From a twelve-year low of $189 a flask in 1963, the New York price of mercury soared to a record $740 in June 1965, then sank to $330 a year later after the Federal Government began selling surplus metal from its strategic stockpile. Last week the price bounced as usual-from a Tuesday low of $480 to a Thursday high...