Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, the big press services played down the Dulles-Sylvester exchange-or skipped it entirely. United Press International ignored it in its first story; the Associated Press put it in paragraph three, later moved it down to the sixth paragraph. But soon nearly everybody was following the imaginative lead adopted by the Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and several other papers. Said Walter Lippmann: "Mr. Dulles opened the door to negotiations on the future of Germany." Growled the New York Daily News: "It seems to us that Mr. Dulles has dropped a king-size brick...
When a San Diego physician asked a technician at General Dynamics' Convair Division to sharpen a big and costly type of hypodermic needle, he had no idea that the trail would lead into the human heart. But more Convair design specialists and engineers got interested in medical gadgeteering; *last week a notable result was announced. They had developed a new and sophisticated heart-lung machine...
...heart is a pinpoint one-hundredth of an ounce of radioactive polonium 210 encased in a molybdenum capsule. The polonium's entrapped radiation heats the capsule to above 700° F. Arranged around it like the spokes of a wheel are 20 thermocouples made of lead telluride. When their ends are heated by the capsule, a flow of electrons is set up in the thermocouples, producing an electric current. At peak power, SNAP III can turn out five watts. Before most of its polonium (half life: 140 days) is exhausted, SNAP III will generate as much current...
...long been at odds over how far and how fast the Government should go in pushing atomic power. The AEC felt that the U.S. should go slow, wait for private enterprise to take the initiative in building commercial plants. Many Congressmen felt that the Government had to take the lead, offer fat subsidies to get large-scale commercial atomic power going now. Last week a special committee of businessmen and engineers appointed by new AEC Chairman John A. McCone to advise him suggested a solution. The Government would pay a major part of the costs of constructing prototype plants...
Many a U.S. corporation has met with equal disaster. A Midwestern auto supplier planned a highly automated plant to make auto frames. But he did not allow sufficient lead time to get out all the bugs. The automated equipment was out of line, would not pass the parts along, and the company had to return to manual equipment to meet production schedules. A Los Angeles wholesale drug company automated the ordering and billing for its warehouse. But hardly had the warehouse started to operate when it had to shut down for nearly two months to straighten out its affairs after...