Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determining melting points of iron (and all other substances that increase in volume as they melt), scientists have long used Lindemann's Law, a complicated mathematical formula describing the relationship between the melting temperature of a substance and the pressure upon it. But Geologist Kennedy was disturbed by the widely varying and apparently inaccurate results obtained when the law was applied at higher pressures. He decided that something was wrong...
...temper ature in the earth's core -until now calculated by extrapolation of Lindemann's Law to be 13,500° F. Instead of the estimated pressure at the earth's inner core (3,000,000 atmospheres), he used the experimentally derived density of iron at this pressure -about twice its density at sea level. Putting that figure into his formula, he arrived at a new and more realistic estimate of the heat in the earth's iron core: only...
...main obstacle to Blake's election was potential opposition from the influential delegates of Orthodox churches behind the Iron Curtain. Although Blake is well liked by the Orthodox -he led a pioneering team of U.S. church men to Moscow in 1956, and three years ago helped arrange a U.S. tour by representatives of the Russian patriarchate- the council officers feared that Russian delegates might be under governmental pressure to vote against an American. Discreetly assured that this was not so, a special nominating committee of the council then went ahead to propose Blake...
...Calif., but bounced back as an Oldsmobile dealer in Honolulu. He made his first financial killing by stockpiling trucks just before the start of World War II, reselling them at a hefty profit. In 1963, he paid $3,800,000 to buy 90% control of the then-floundering Honolulu Iron Works Co., which makes sugar mills. By chopping off deadwood and expanding, he tripled its profits in a year, two months ago sold out to Ward Foods for $13.8 million, 100,000 shares of Ward stock and a seat on its board...
...stated that the allies "have never ventured into areas under heavy Communist influence which comprise the largest part of South Vietnam." This if flatly contradicted by last week's operation in Binh Dinh and Quang Nai provinces, as well as previous operations such as that in the Delta's "Iron Triangle" which was a Communist stronghold since 1950. The editorial stated that "All of our successful operations have been confined to the central plains area, a region settled largely by Catholic refugees from the North and hardly a Viet Cong stronghold." But the area is settled mostly by Montagard tribesmen...