Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This peculiar behavior is explained by the structure of graphite crystals, whose carbon atoms are arranged in sheets one atom thick. When the sheets are stacked up in a crystal, the distance between the atoms in adjoining layers is more than twice as great (3.35 angstroms*) as the distance between the atoms in the individual sheets (1.42 angstroms). In ordinary commercial graphite, microscopic crystals are jumbled almost at random, but in Pyrographite they are mostly aligned with their sheets parallel (see diagram). This builds up a layered structure that resists the motion of heat across the layers but permits easy...
...GREAT part of modern life is lived by artificial light, and yet no major painter has devoted himself to this glittering and multi-hued area until now. This week Manhattan's Babcock Galleries put on show the work of Chicago's Richard Florsheim, the first artist to attempt an all-out embrace of the world of electrical, chemical and neon fires. With painters everywhere attempting to reestablish contact, however ephemeral, with nature, Florsheim points out that man-made lights are also part of nature. The nighttime view from an airplane or a train can take...
...steelworkers. Though some unions posted signs saying: "We shall return as slaves of Ike," and issued armbands emblazoned: "U.S.W. of A.-Ike's Slaves," the men were ready to work hard. U.S. Steel and others reported the workers' attitude "excellent." Said a foreman at Detroit's Great Lakes Steel: "Human nature is queer. There isn't any love feast between the workers and the company, but the guys in the plant have lots of pride and self-respect; they want to do a good...
...Explosive Issue." The great fear of the automakers and other heavy industry is that they will have to shut down again almost as soon as they get back to full production. Though a few companies whose business is in slack period, may be able to build up small stockpiles during; the 80-day Taft-Hartley injunction period, most companies will not be able to build up any appreciable supply. The pipelines are so clear that steel will be used as fast as it is delivered. If the strike is resumed after the injunction is ended, shortages will show up immediately...
...than $500 million in Manhattan real estate, including the Park Lane, Commodore, Biltmore and Barclay hotels, plus several blocks of Park Avenue land. Biggest plum of all: Alleghany's 47.8% control of Investors Diversified Services, which manages five mutual funds whose combined assets total about $3 billion. This great Alleghany complex, says Sonnabend, "has been static since Robert Young died. It needs new vitality and dynamism...