Word: soot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the tension considerably eased by this unexpected surrender, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins mounted the witness stand to fire a volley of criticism into other provisions of Steel's code. She had forearmed herself for this attack by going, in a black dress that would not show soot, right into the mills and blast furnaces at Pittsburgh to talk with employes on work & wages. Now before NRA she was an emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour...
...puffs from the first explosion is the Milky Way, in which Earth is a fleck of Sun-warmed soot. Other puffs are nebulae traveling 12,000 miles a second. Cosmic rays include flashes of light (Millikan photons) from that explosion, and chips of matter (Compton electrons and/or protons; TIME, Jan. 9). They equal one-tenth the light from all the stars and weigh (Millikan calculation) 10 -34 gram per cubic centimeter.* Mount Wilson's Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble estimates the total amount of matter in space as 10 -31 gram per cubic centimeter. Cosmic radiation thus must be equal...
...cold. Several times Gobel got up to go out in the empty, soot-black courtyard for air. Then he would come back to clatter coal into his boiler. It made a great deal of noise. It was 3:40 (he was off at 6) when Gobel went out in the yard for his next look around. It was his last one. This time there was noise in the boiler room but not from the shovel. Weigand scrambled over the coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with...
...spick & span readiness for her maiden voyage from Manhattan this week was the 5. S. Manhattan, biggest (705 ft., 24.000 tons), fastest (22.7 knots) liner ever built in the U. S.* Fortnight ago on its two trial cruises, the Manhattan met every test successfully, was unofficially scored "100% plus." Soot from the two squat, rakish funnels had smudged many a celebrity on the trial run but it was a simple matter for 100 workmen to raise the short stacks 15 feet...
...Hugo Zucchini. In spite of doctors' objections Sigñor Zacchini climbs into the mouth of a huge cannon mounted on a motor truck, smears himself with soot, is propelled by compressed air 150 ft into a net as a big firecracker goes...