Word: carbone
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...worried about contamination of Gloucester fisheries; the Attorney General hawkishly snaps, "Let's get it over with," the same position he took "preceding the establishment of the Federal Rehabilitation Camps for Flabby Americans." In a twinkling, "the massive machinery of government swung smoothly into action . . . and all available carbon paper was requisitioned for the duration of the emergency." The little-known Committee for Outgoing Publicity Adjustment gets to work. "Its job," writes The New Yorker, "is to insure that the American people are kept fully informed, by so-called 'leaks' and briefings to responsible or otherwise accredited...
...Establishment. Britain's Angry Young Men seem to have ceded the spitball concession to a younger lot of Mocking Young Men. It's mock mock mock all night long in this revue, as a bouncy, agreeable quintet jive like carbon-copycats from Beyond the Fringe...
...physicians and surgeons on both sides of the Atlantic are deliberately subjecting their patients to deep-sea pressures to save their lives. As testament to the success of this paradoxical treatment, "blue babies" are turning a healthy pink even before the end of operations. Seemingly hopeless cases of carbon monoxide poisoning and of gas gangrene (a deadly infection) are pulling through...
...most promising method he could find was the "controlled atmosphere" system now in use among apple growers. Stored in sealed, refrigerated warehouses, apples begin to deteriorate, but in the process they use up oxygen. Within two or three weeks there is so much carbon dioxide in the air that the ripening process slows practically to a halt. Trouble is, the controlled atmosphere has to be carefully checked; too much CO2 can also harm the fruit. A second trouble is that once the warehouse is opened to remove a load, the whole process has to be started once more...
...team of Montana State College chemists have developed a bee-milking method that allows not only the captured bees but wasps and hornets to produce their poison over and over again in sufficient quantities for research. A whole container of bees is anesthetized with a whiff of carbon monoxide, and then, one at a time, the insects are wrapped in a sash of aluminum foil that is connected to a source of high-voltage, low-current electricity. A brief shock causes the stinging muscles to contract and excrete venom...