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...order. NPA feared that the hazy DO system would overload some companies with arms orders, thus delay deliveries, and bring spotty civilian shortages. To spread the load more evenly, NPA announced that no company need accept DO priorities in any one month for more than 15% of its carbon steel capacity, or 25% of its special alloy steel...
Neolithic New Yorkers. U.S. archeology is mostly concerned with Indians, who are more appreciated now than in the early settlers' days. Dr. William A. Ritchie, New York State Archeologist, told how he dated Indian remains by means of carbon 14 in charcoal from long-dead campfires...
...Carbon 14, faintly radioactive, is formed in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. AH carbon in living things contains a tiny amount of it, but after the death of an organism, its carbon 14 gradually disintegrates; half of it disappears in about 5,800 years. The amount that has disappeared is a reasonably accurate measure of the object...
...Cold Does It. Langmuir, the man of theory, soon worked out the "mechanism." It was the low temperature of the dry ice, not its carbon dioxide, that did the trick. Any very cold object, e.g., a needle cooled with liquid air, served as well...
...Union Carbide & Carbon's six-month net was $60.8 million...