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...quartz, magnesite and bauxite, the bureaumen added a crystallizing agent (fluorosilicate compound) and melted the ingredients in a platinum-lined crucible at nearly 2,500° F. As the furnace cooled, mica sheets grew from tiny "seed crystals" at the coneshaped bottom of the crucible. Because crucibles lined with carbon or ceramic failed to do the trick, the bureau scientists used expensive platinum, hope to reduce costs by melting down the metal and reusing it time & again...
...could not talk (as earthbound creatures know talking), but one of them obligingly drew a map of the solar system and pointed to the second planet from the sun. Thereupon, at the suggestion of a smart Earthling, all the prisoners were hastily placed in a pressurized chamber filled with carbon dioxide to simulate the atmosphere of Venus...
...double-spaced page typed by a male student pays 20 cents; typed by a female student, 15 cents. If a Harvard man types a carbon copy, he gets 5 cents per page; the Radcliffe girls get 2 cents per page...
...some cases entering a contest is not hard. The Bowdoin Prizes with $500 for first place calls for essays of not over 10,000 words on "any subject suitable for treatment in literary form." Students often hand in carbon copies of their honors theses for consideration...
Superintendent Thomas Ragland of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. plant at South Charleston, who had played host to Modarelli when he was trying to get "a feel" for the industrial section of Saga, beamed at the sound effects of whirring machines and the tripping of interrupter switches. "Precisely as they are heard in the plant," said...