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...felt much lighter. A few days later she and Bertram and John all found more. They took the collection to Dr. Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum of Natural History, who is the leading authority on Swanscombe man. Last week Dr. Oakley announced that the black objects are carbon, probably charcoal from the campfires of shadowy Swanscombe man. If the first Englishmen possessed fire, they must have climbed quite a way in cultural development...
...spaceship's atmosphere is a problem too. Its oxygen will have to be replaced as it is consumed, and the carbon dioxide from the crew's lungs will have to be disposed of. Both jobs can be done at the same time by green plants, which separate oxygen from carbon dioxide. With this system in operation, the spaceship would be a miniature of the parent earth, where plants and animals, acting together, recycle the atmosphere...
...material expenses edged up. A few passed on their costs to retailers; but most looked for other solutions. One good way to cut costs was by automation, and U.S. businessmen busily installed new pushbutton machines to produce everything from auto engine blocks to electronic printed circuits. To make carbon dioxide, Liquid Carbonic Corp. spent $1.5 million for a new, completely automatic plant in Oakland, Calif, in which two highly skilled technicians produce as much as was formerly turned out by 50 men. At the start of 1955, such automated factories were a great worry to U.S. labor leaders, who feared...
...acre." California's gain was once the East's loss, but 1955's economy was big enough for everyone. In Ohio the growth was little short of phenomenal. The Cleveland area alone counted nearly $500 million in new expansion. Samples: a $31 million Union Carbide & Carbon titanium plant, the world's biggest; a $30 million Ford engine plant expansion, making Cleveland second only to Detroit in Ford's future...
Woodward was found dead in an automobile in an isolated area near Los Alamos. Coroner's jury determined the cause of death as self-inflicted carbon monoxide poisoning after friends testified he often spoke of the "thin line between life and death...