Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ramo-Wooldridge intellectual parallelism is matched by their careers. Both were born in the same month of the same year-Wooldridge on May 30, 1913, at Chickasha, Okla., the son of an independent oil broker, Ramo on May 7, 1913, the son of a Salt Lake City store owner. Both skipped grades in grammar school, peddied magazines for pocket money and excelled in their classes. Wooldridge graduated from high school at 14 and with honors from the University of Oklahoma; Ramo graduated from the University of Utah. Both went on to Caltech, where they won Ph.D.s...
...flowed the oil and down sank the city. Soon the Navy, Ford Motor Co., the power company and the oil producers themselves were building costly levees to keep the salt sea away from their doors. As the sinking continued, one or two feet each year, the earth began to move sideways. Pipes broke and gushed water, oil or sewage. Pavements cracked. Bridges had to be rebuilt to keep them above the water. Such work has cost so far about $90 million...
Franco's promise to ease up on the suppression of criticism should not be taken with too many grains of salt. The State Department, by quiet and personal influence, should press the Generalissimo to fulfill his cautiously liberal declarations...
...AMERICAN MOVIEMEN REQUIRE PITH HELMETS, SALT TABLETS, QUININE PILLS TO VISIT THE CAO DAI CAPITAL, TAYNINH [to film The Quiet American-TIME, Feb .25]. THE CLIMATE IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO A WASHINGTON SUMMER. PERHAPS THE INHABITANTS WERE MYSTIFIED BY THEIR STRANGE ATTIRE AND ECCENTRIC DIET...
Through her study of antigens, Suzanne Brown, 16, is trying to develop in mice an immunity to the irritation of mosquito bites. Other students are studying the tolerance of fresh-water fish for salt, the effect of light on the fighting mood of chameleons, and ways to induce toads to lay their eggs out of season. One boy, having noticed that some dead fish do not pollute the water in tanks that contain a certain type of algae, now thinks he is on the road to a discovery. "I know there is an antibiotic property in the algae," says...