Word: liquidation
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...which means that the slippery stuff has another distinctive characteristic: it is thixotropic-a sudden shock can transform it from a solid to a liquid...
...doctors got ready to operate on Mrs. Lurea Covington, 24, a mother of two, Goodwin injected liquid from the same bottle and got the same cough-spasm reaction. Only now did he suspect that there might be something wrong with the analgesic mixture. He mixed a fresh batch, gave some to Mrs. Covington, and her' operation continued with no other anesthetic. She went to the recovery room alongside Michael Ketchum. It was not long before the boy turned ashen grey, then blue, from insufficient oxygen in his blood. So did Mrs. Covington. Despite frantic attempts at resuscitation...
None of which was helping the U.N. pay its bills. As of last week, the world organization had only $30 million in liquid assets, a monthly payroll of $3,000,000 for its Secretariat, and debts totaling $80 million...
...hydrogen fuel also promises to pay an extra dividend. To be kept in liquid form, it must be stored in refrigerated tanks at a temperature of - 423 °F. And since a plane moving at scramjet speeds will be seared by the heat of friction as it moves through the atmosphere, the frigid hydrogen will make an ideal coolant to be pumped through the skin of wings and fuselage before it is burned...
...Valley Sanitation Commission (v. only 75% five years ago). At its Houston refinery, Shell Oil now purifies its used water so thoroughly that fish swim in a pond at the end of the process. Ford Motor Co. announced last month that it will spend $1,000,000 to scrub liquid wastes flowing into the Rouge River from its Dearborn steel plant. Four major steel firms recently agreed to spend $50 million over seven years to eliminate the 160 tons a year of red dust they now spew over every square mile of Chicago...