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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distance between the atoms in adjoining layers is more than twice as great (3.35 angstroms*) as the distance between the atoms in the individual sheets (1.42 angstroms). In ordinary commercial graphite, microscopic crystals are jumbled almost at random, but in Pyrographite they are mostly aligned with their sheets parallel (see diagram). This builds up a layered structure that resists the motion of heat across the layers but permits easy passage along them...
...than areas where people sit drugged by canned entertainment." As for the name "buttery," Saarinen made clear that he was not thinking of dairy products, pointedly cited the Oxford Dictionary derivation: "Buttery, sb. ME. (app. a. OF. boterie - bouteillerie:-late L. botaria, f. bota, var. of butta cask, bottle; see BUTT...
Such nondurable goods as clothing, food and gasoline still account for two-thirds of the consumer's purchases, reached a sales total of $12 billion in October. Bigger gains have been run up in the durable field (see chart), where October sales hit $6.3 billion, up 17% over last year and nearly 10% over September. The durables got a hefty boost in October from soaring sales of Detroit's 1960 auto models, will probably level off this month because of a shortage of cars caused by the steel strike...
...hours one day last week, the roar of auto engines echoed against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains as 23 cars gunned and slid around the $500,000 Continental Divide Raceways near Denver. The competition on the twisty, 2.8-mile circuit was the first endurance race to see how well Detroit's new compact cars stack up against their competition both at home and from abroad...
Pearls Proprietary expects plenty of competition from other pearlers who know a good thing when they see one. At least five more syndicates have set up camp along the coast. But even when they get into production, there is no guarantee that they will be as successful as Pearls Proprietary, which refuses to divulge exactly how it makes its pearls...