Word: users
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fourth largest user of radium is the research physicist, and most of the world's radium outside hospitals is to be found in university and other research laboratories. Radium lasts a long time: one gram will be half a gram in 1,580 years...
Just before the curtain rose on last week's performance of Tannhäuser at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, a wheel chair was carefully pushed up to the wings. From it, with great gentleness, a husky stagehand and a medieval huntsman lifted the frail body of a bravely smiling diva, deposited her tenderly on the cushions of a shell-backed fairy-tale divan. Amid a crowd of pirouetting nymphs and satyrs the reclining diva, her blond hair sparkling with stage diamonds, was slowly wheeled on the stage...
...orchestra surged into the Tannhäuser Bacchanale a hush spread over the backstage throng of greasepainted singers and grimy sceneshifters. The next few minutes would tell the story of Marjorie Lawrence's first comeback in opera. Gesturing from her couch, she smiled triumphantly and sang Venus' lines with a pearly soprano as lucent as ever...
...entire area is heated by exhaust steam from the Cambridge Electric Light Company. The steam is carried by several miles of underground pipe extending from the Business School, through the Yard, to the laboratories beyond Memorial Hall. Because the Electric Company burns coal, no shortage is predicted for the user future...
...odds were that Nelson now would adopt something approaching Taylor's steel quota plan which would give one single authority power to divide the amount of steel available and give each user a quota for keeps. It was even likely that Nelson would apply similar quota systems to other commodities and toss the report-ridden, unwieldy old Production Requirements Plan ("Purp") out the window. If so, Taylor would have accomplished by quitting what he had not been able to do by working in Washington...