Word: heat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smell of Money. That kind of nothing-to-it optimism is characteristic of Houston. It strikes newcomers even more vividly than the heat or the building boom. "I like the aura of optimism everybody has here," says a new arrival. "Everybody thinks he can do the job that's put to him, and he goes about it in a happy manner." In other cities, citizens sniff foul air and worry about pollution; in Houston, they savor the pungent odor that wafts from the refineries and chemical plants and cheerfully call it "the smell of money...
...also "cold, ambitious" and unpredictable. Raskin pulled no punches with his own front office: "One top-level mediator said Mr. Bradford brought an attitude of such icy disdain into the conference room that the mediator often felt he ought to ask the hotel to send up more heat." The publishers' attitude, Raskin quoted one observer as complaining, was always "Give 'em nothing-and do it retroactively...
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night poses so painful a threat to the U.S. postman as the common dog. Last year 7,372 mail carriers were bitten by Fido; many more were stayed by a snarl from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But the postman is about to snap back...
...package deal of $12.63 a week. And why not? On the job, the top day scale was $141 per week; for not working, they were getting an average of $121 a week in strike benefits and unemployment insurance (both tax free). But the parent International Typographical Union put the heat on the printers by hinting it would cut off their benefits, and when the printers met again last week, the contract was approved...
...develop the picture, an electric current is shot through the film for one hundredth of a second. This jolt of juice generates just enough heat to soften the plastic. The electric charges are able to squeeze closer together, dimpling the softened material, which instantly cools and solidifies. The result is a pattern of varying thickness that matches the pattern of light and darkness that made up the original image on the film...