Word: resins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding on resin and felt in the water purifying system...
...pages of testimony), the FTC issued a cease-and-desist order, only to have it tossed out by the U.S. Court of Appeals. After an appeal to the Supreme Court, which ordered further hearings, the FTC tried again in 1956. The pills, compounded chiefly of podophyllin (resin of dried root of the mayapple plant) and aloes (dried juice of the aloe plant), still do not stimulate liver bile, said...
WATERPROOF MONEY will be issued by Japanese Finance Ministry to save $360 million face value in currency damaged each year by water. New notes will have synthetic resin mixed into pulp, will withstand the washing machine...
...Artist Benton is still cocky and rebellious, still thumbs down even the impressionists, and still puts in a ferocious day's work in his Kansas City (Mo.) studio in a converted stable. Because of an allergy, he has switched from egg yolk, once his favorite medium, to acrylic resin; because artificial light bothers his failing eyes, he paints only in daylight, often keeps his evenings illuminated with just a log fire...
Standing isolated in the bleak industrial flats of Long Island City, across Bowery Bay from La Guardia Airport, is the Modern Art Foundry. Inside, the walls glow as roaring furnaces melt ingots of bronze, and the air is scented with the churchlike smell of resin and wax dripping from the handmade kilns. There last week stood the man whom many U.S. and European critics rank as one of the top two or three sculptors in the world: stocky, blue-eyed Jacques Lipchitz...