Word: smashers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chemist Libby's water clock will be based on the same principle as the carbon 14 calendar. Some ten miles high, in the stratosphere, cosmic rays stream in from outer space. With far more force than an atom-smasher, the cosmic rays collide with nitrogen atoms. The crash produces hydrogen, carbon 14 and a minute amount of radioactive tritium. The atoms of cosmic tritium join molecules of water vapor and fall to the earth in snow and rain...
Tradition Smasher. Gary had not only let the empire shrink; its plants had grown antiquated. To scurf the rust, the House of Morgan brought in Lawyer Myron C. Taylor, who had made $20 million, while still a young man, by putting rickety textile firms back on their feet. Taylor paid off $340 million of Big Steel's bonded debt just before the 1929 crash, thus enabling it to live through the depression, when-for the first time-it lost money. Taylor modernized equipment and, more importantly, changed Big Steel's labor relations...
When debonair Count Guido Chigi-Saracini was a young music student in Florence, his teachers called him "the piano smasher." Often enough, when he came to a difficult passage, he could only bang his fists down on the keyboard in frustration and rage. After a try at composing, with little more success, he decided to take his music at one remove, pay for it rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim...
Jack Grant was watching closely from the gate when a cargo loader banged his yellow bag against the airplane hatch. The baggage smasher dropped it in horror as it began to spout flames. White-coveralled mechanics and loaders converged with foaming CO2 bottles, put the fire out before the gasoline could catch. By that time, Grant had thrust the insurance receipts into Betty's hands, blurted something that sounded like "I'm going to be arrested! I'm going to jail for sure," and fled...