Word: zinc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zinc & Freedom. When Deakin's men tried to rally the strikers, addressing them with the traditional dockers' salute of "Eh, brother?" they retorted: "Down with Deakin," or "We're not fighting the government but we want our rights. Where's our freedom now?" In 1941, they had bartered a little freedom for a little more "security": in return for a guaranteed minimum weekly wage, they had accepted a penalty clause. Now the clause chafed. It had required only a small flash to set off a rebellion...
...spark had been the matter of eleven dockers and a cargo of zinc oxide. The eleven had refused to finish loading the cargo last month without more pay. They said, with more anger than truth, that the zinc oxide turned them blue. Penalties for the stoppage (including loss of seven days' pay) were clapped on them. The eleven-and many another docker-thought the penalties grossly unfair. Communists eagerly sniffed their opportunity...
...annual convention in Manhattan last week, the American Newspaper Publishers' Association looked over a room full of new labor-saving printing gadgets. Among them: a Fairchild photoelectric engraver that made cheap cuts of plastic in a fraction of the time required for the present zinc engraving. If VariTyping could be combined with a quick and cheap engraving process, then the newspaper of the future might be "printed" without printers. The publishers voted to spend $280,000 for research on new printing processes...
...Experimenting with porphyrins, which are fluorescent substances found in the body in minute amounts, he found that they went directly to cancer tissue. Since they stay on its outer limit and since they glow under ultraviolet light, they neatly outline the tumor. The porphyrins could, Dr. Figge found, carry zinc on their journey; that indicated that they might also carry isotopes.* One drawback to porphyrins as isotope carriers: they also have an affinity for the necrotic (dead) parts of a cancer, where radioactivity would do little, if any, good...
...lack of fuel, many a newspaper on the U.S. West Coast would soon be out of paper. Canada supplies 80% of U.S. newsprint consumption, and much of it could be sold elsewhere at higher prices in the present world famine. The same is true of minerals (especially copper, zinc and lead...