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...Williamsburg section, an American Cyanamid Co. tank truck backed up to the Radio Receptor Co.'s plant (which makes electronic equipment) to deliver 500 gallons of nitric acid. Driver Benjamin Sidla hooked up his hose to a pipe indicated by employees, started pumping. After a few minutes, a man rushed up from the basement, yelled to Sidla: "You'd better stop. The fumes are terrible down there." Somehow the nitric acid had been diverted into a 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrochloric. Result: royal water, which was already beginning to dissolve the tank's rubber lining, eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Royal Water in Brooklyn | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...studying the effects wrought on the radioactive graveyards by such phenomena as bottom currents, movement of bottom sediment and the upwelling of bottom waters. AEC is also concerned about such future needs as a program of international coordination (Britain now pumps its low-energy atomic garbage through a pipe into the Irish Sea) and the radioactivity that will remain in the oceans in the wake of nuclear-powered ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Garbage Disposal | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

From cheering Novosibirsk, Nixon moved on to Sverdlovsk, where the Bolsheviks shot Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, then drove deep into the Urals to visit a copper mine and Russia's largest tube and pipe plant. At every log-cabin village and dusty crossroads, hundreds of peasants gathered to wave and cheer Nixon-and they stayed on for hours to do the same for the caravan of reporters and U.S. officials strung out along the road behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Mir i Druzhba | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...costs (up in Atlanta 4.5% over last year) and dozens of minor expenses, e.g., shoeshines (up 10? to 35? in Sacramento) and haircuts (up 25? to $2 in San Francisco). Everywhere, middle-income families felt the pinch of such pressures as rising commuter fares, real estate prices, taxi taxes, pipe tobacco and cigar taxes, real estate taxes, school taxes, gasoline taxes. The state of Washington alone has new tax increases this year on liquor (5%), real estate rentals (.4%), business transactions (10%), and even a brand new thought-earth-moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: You Itch All Over | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...quiet blue haze of North Carolina's high Pisgah National Forest, Ranger Ted Seely, 51, brier pipe in mouth, tramped through tree-darkened groves where waterfalls trickled down slopes and an occasional deer or groundhog darted into a clearing. His top worry of the day was checking the waters of the Pigeon, Hominy, Davidson and other rivers to be sure that they were flowing silt-free; miles below three North Carolina communities and some of the state's biggest paper, cellophane, rayon and nylon plants were depending on a steady 100 million gallons daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. National Forests: The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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