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...eleven nations rushed to obtain licenses for it, including the Soviet Union and such U.S. glassmakers as Libbey-Owens-Ford, Pittsburgh Plate Glass and the Ford Motor Co. Eventually, Pilkington expects to earn about $240 million annually from the float process in license fees, royalties and exports: the new tint process will add another $24 million a year to that. Meanwhile controlling 85% of British glassmaking and exporting its own products to 100 nations around the world, Pilkington foresees a future as shiny as a piece of newly hardened plate...
Williams quickly hypothesized tint the Rio Negro might in effect be an immense tea, pontaining infusions of plant and tree substances similar to the insect hormones. Scooping up the dark river water, Williams and his colleagues, Professors Fotis Kafatos of Harvard and David Prescott of the University of Colorado, freeze-dried and boiled the water to concentrate the chemicals in it, extracted them with solvents, then injected the resulting solution into immature cockroaches. Sure enough, the roaches all died without reaching sexual maturity...
...whites are not the only people who occasionally stir up racial tension, and British police are quick to crack down on troublemakers of any tint. Last week police arrested Trinidad-born Negro Michael Abdul Malik, 34, the bearded leader of Britain's tiny Black Muslim movement. His alleged crime: making a speech in which he described whites as "vicious and nasty people...
Myrtle Walgreen was a farm-bred girl whose face had never known the tint of man-made coloring. One day in the early 1900s her pharmacist husband brought home some lipstick and rouge, dabbed a little on her, then urged her to show the new face in public. In Myrtle's ruby lips, Charles R. Walgreen saw rosy profits. Sure enough, neighboring wives rushed to his drugstore on Chicago's South Side, where they found not only Walgreen-produced pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, but hot meals cooked to Myrtle's recipes. As business boomed, Charlie continued to innovate...
...recent sculpture by Rube Goldberg, now cascades over his ears and down his neck with Joanie Phoanie abandon, and the great wave atop his head looks as if it had been locked in place with Living Curl. In a certain light, there even seems to be a new tint of gold among the silver threads-though only his hairdresser knows for sure...