Word: nitroglycerine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expand their tightened arteries when an attack starts, victims of angina carry with them tiny pills (containing from 0.0003 to 0.0006 of a gram) of nitroglycerin. These work in a flash, but their effect does not last long...
...pooher of the theory last week was Astronomer Charles Clayton Wylie of the University of Iowa. His big objection: contraterrene material zooming earthward would unite with air, "releasing energy such that a gram of meteorite and air would produce an explosion equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of nitroglycerin. Obviously a meteorite made of contraterrene material would be blown to bits . . . high in the upper air. So the assumption ... is impossible...
...Nitroglycerin. In the Navy, there are only two opinions of Ernest Joseph King...
...Temper? Don't fool with nitroglycerin," the Naval Academy's Lucky Bag recorded of Ernie King when he graduated in 1901 (after a mid-school interlude of active duty during the Spanish-American War, on patrol off the Atlantic Coast). That temper subsequently hindered his Navy career, made enemies, often saddened friends who had the utmost faith in his capacities. Testifying before Congressional committeemen, he has been known to fly into ugly, inarticulate rage. Such incidents did him no good, either with Congress or with the Navy command...
Once Ma Greene steered the Argand through a cyclone to safe harbor. Once she quieted her passengers' panic when the swell of her boat exploded 40 quarts of nitroglycerin in a yawl tied to shore, caving in the boat's bulkheads and smashing cabin windows. Another time, with one of her sons in her arms, she barked orders that got her boat safely untangled after it had collided with another in a windstorm...