Word: liquidators
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Consider a world so cold," says Union Carbide Engineer Roger Thompson, "that the very air you breathe turns to liquid or freezes as solid as a block of ice, where steel is as brittle as glass, a rubber ball shatters when it hits the floor, and lead is an almost perfect conductor of electricity." The odd goings-on described by Engineer Thompson all occur in the far-out world of cryogenics-the science of ultra-low temperatures...
...approach absolute zero, the electrical resistance of many elements and compounds suddenly disappears. These substances become highly efficient conductors, and small voltages produce large currents that continue to flow indefinitely even after the power source has been withdrawn. Scientists can now envision a superconductive power-transmission line cooled by liquid helium that could carry 100 billion watts of direct current for hundreds of miles with no appreciable losses...
...switching device many times faster (and many times smaller) than the solid-state semiconductors now used computers. With cryogenic techniques, a closet-size computer could fit in a shoe box. Cryogenics will also make possible such esoteric devices as loss-free superconductive motors with rotors that float in liquid helium, and superconductive gyroscopes that float in frictionless magnetic fields...
...catalogued dozens of ancient methods-magical incantations, jumping from high places, applying hot coals to the abdomen. Hawaiian women fashioned stilettos representing Kupo, god of abortions, then thrust them into the uterus. Even now, Ceylonese girls brew an abortifacient by boiling a poisonous yam in cow urine or liquid dung, and then swallow the stuff for seven days...
...books and backed by lOUs in the currencies of participating countries. Nations will automatically be credited with S.D.R. in proportion to their regular IMF deposits, but only 30% of S.D.R. actually used need ever be repaid. The other 70% becomes a permanent increase in each country's liquid assets-"paper gold" that moneymen feel should some day become as coveted as the metal...