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Most crying need for them is in medicine, not to cure disease (though the isotopes may do this too), but to probe basic biological processes. Radioactive carbon 14, for example, may be fed to human beings or laboratory animals. Though present only in sub-microscopic quantities, it will announce its presence to sensitive instruments. Physiologists can follow it through the body, even into individual cells...
...Gestapo agents, blonde Mata Haris of the checkroom, silk ropes, and other frustrated pilgrims awaiting admission. But the lemmings are not discouraged; they bribe, push and plead for the privilege of paying $8 to $125 a couple for dining, drinking blended rye at saucer-sized tables, breathing smoke and carbon monoxide and getting their eardrums clouted by a boogie woogie beat...
...coal. But the gasoline was only 40-octane, and the method was too expensive for commercial use in this country. Keith worked out a similar method of making gasoline from natural gas, thinks he has made it commercially feasible. In brief, natural gas is burned with oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can then be reacted to produce liquid hydrocarbons, i.e., gasoline...
...their annual meeting in Manhattan last week, stockholders of big Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. considered an "incentive" plan for executives. Under the plan, officers and key employes would be permitted to buy up to 464,000 shares of company stock at 25% below its market value, now $124, and pay for it with money borrowed from the company. By selling the stock, executives could get a quick bonus of nearly $12 million...
...exercising options, only the capital gains tax on resale.) The ruling was based on a Supreme Court decision handed down, effective Feb. 25, 1945, on that date. Up till then, stock option plans had been a popular way of getting around heavy taxes. Said Union Carbide & Carbon's Board Chairman Benjamin O'Shea, after catching up with the times: "The Treasury statement has given us cause to pause. We'll have to figure out a more efficient plan...