Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Others come from patches of faintly luminous gas, or from the clouds of cold hydrogen drifting among the stars. The new telescope is fitted for recording all these faint whispers on wave lengths from ten centimeters to about 20 meters. Since its great area allows it to gather much more radio energy than small rivals, it will almost certainly hear strange whispers never heard before...
...insiders' price of $8 a share. These holdings are now worth $43 a share, or $82 million. Influential speculators got big chunks of the $37.5 million public issue, which is now worth $161 million. Fantastic speculative profits were also made in three companies set up to gather or distribute the gas Trans-Canada will bring. Vancouver Oilman Ralph K. Farris, son of a Liberal Senator and founder of the Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co., paid $300 for stock now worth $750,000. Two insiders invested $12,012 in stock now priced at $3,200,000. Quebec Natural...
...Economy? Why the discrepancy between the economy's health and the gloomy statistical prognosis? One possibility is that a recession is actually on its way, but has so far been felt only in scattered soft spots. A more probable theory is advanced by the men who gather and analyze the statistical indexes. In the National Bureau of Economic Research's 37th annual report, published last week, Research Director Solomon Fabricant implied that the idea that business moves in up and down swings-the theory on which the statistical indexes are based-may no longer apply...
Static-Free Synthetics. Two new processes to eliminate the static from synthetics so they will not cling to the skin and gather lint will soon be in use. A Celanese Corp. of America process coats cottonlike cellulose around each filament of fiber in its Arnel fabrics. Onyx Oil and Chemical Co. has developed a chemical compound called Aston which can be applied to all synthetics to kill the static. Clothing manufacturers will plug the fabric as "Astonized...
...hawklike man with an ascetic face, Behn worked in an eyrie high in the tower of the company's Manhattan headquarters, an oak-paneled chamber in rich Louis XIV style, a painting of the late Pius XI behind his desk. Often he would gather aides to listen on earphones as he telephoned subsidiaries on every continent, suavely speaking in all major languages, a trader who could charm dictators and dicker deals in every monetary exchange...