Word: foams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been preserved; the mermaid would be recapitated within the week. Maybe. To earthlings who had come to love the Sea King's daughter, there was little comfort in the thought that welders could repair such wanton carnage. But, of course, The Mermaid is immortal, a creature of foam and sky. If tears were to be shed, they should be for the vandal-or, as Hans Andersen put it, for the "naughty child. And each tear adds a day to the time of our trial...
...trustbusters moved to dismember a joint chemical subsidiary set up in Pittsburgh by Monsanto Co. and West Germany's Farbenfabriken Bayer, also filed a suit to prevent Manhattan-based Allied Chemical from absorbing General Foam Corp. But their choice target was Humble Oil, Jersey Standard's U.S. operating and marketing subsidiary. Humble planned to spend $329 million to acquire the Western operations of Tidewater Oil Co., which is owned by Jean Paul Getty, the richest living American (approximate wealth: $1 billion), and run by his son, George Getty II. The takeover would bring Humble one refinery, five supertankers...
...Lookout was on the bridge--you would have been washed from the bow the way a seatainer trailor was washed from its lashings. Standing there and sighting along the ship, you felt yourself rise with a rumble over a wave, plunging down into the black night water. Then the foam broke over the bow and your eyes without moving your head were turned to those green and white fireworks in the sky. Up and down, black and light, for about a half hour; clinging to the rail. Life and art are supposed to imitate one another; I remember reading...
...were glued back on). To enhance the New York World's Fair, Michelangelo's 6,700-lb. Pietà was eased off its pedestal in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, slid down planks lubricated with laundry soap and packed in a double box with a foam plastic that cushions the marble and supports it by filling every cranny. For the sea voyage, the Vatican took out $6 million in humpty-bumpty insurance, plus another $20 million for its stay at the fair, just about enough to pay for the Vatican's embarrassment if the sculpture...
Admiral and Kelvinator started producing refrigerators that are lined with plastic foam instead of the bulkier glass fiber, thus have bigger insides than conventional models. General Electric has brought out "self-cleaning" ovens that dissolve grime by melting it down at temperatures...