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...made canals. 2. Definite evidence of trees and bushes. 3. Solid carbon dioxide. 4. Only solid rock formations. 5. Water in the solid state...
...steam was used to concentrate boric acid brought to the surface by natural soffioni (blowholes). In 1905 it ran a steam engine and a 20-kilowatt generator. A sizable industry has grown up around Larderello, producing borax, carbon dioxide and ammonia as well as power. Italian geologists believe that the output, both of chemicals and power, can be increased considerably, hence the new power plant...
...liquor, chemicals, textiles and building materials, profits improved almost without exception; utilities and food packaging were not far behind. In most cases, profit margins were no higher than last year, but volume was up. Some typical nets: $23 million for Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (up 20% over the first quarter of 1947); $1.5 million for National Gypsum (up 15%); $2.1 million for Wm. Wrigley...
Unknown Hazards. Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., already operating Y-12 and K-25 for the Government on a cost-plus basis, recently took over X-io on the same terms. When it did, it tried to reduce the X-10 higher wage rates to the same level as the other plants. Some 800 X-10 employees objected. Employment at X-10 was supposed to involve hazards of "a largely unknown nature...
...hours before a midnight strike deadline, the Government took a step under Taft-Hartley. For the first time in the history of the act it slapped down an injunction. The injunction kept the 800 workers at their jobs, forbade Carbide & Carbon from changing the conditions of the old contract. The length of the injunction: 80 days. Meanwhile the Government will look for some way to mend the first labor fission in the atomic world...