Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Stanley had quit Dartmouth, and started looking for something to do. With Father Floyd's help he picked up a twelve-year-old semi-dormant investment trust, changed the name to Great American Industries, bought an outfit called Virginia Rubatex Corp., which makes hard & soft cellular rubber for insulation, gaskets, seat cushions, pontoons, etc. The rubber business flourished but young Odium wanted more diversification, found it in venerable Ward La France Truck Corp., one of the biggest U.S. makers of fire engines and custom-built, heavy-duty trucks. With these two in the corral, he went after Connecticut...
...cells even when diluted to one part in 500,000,000,000. One gram dissolved in 25,000,000 gallons of water is enough to meet the vital needs of bacteria. All higher forms of life, including man, also need tiny amounts of biotin for such vital functions as cellular respiration and growth...
Exactly how the new substance works is not known. Theory is that, when some cells are injured or destroyed, the injured cells produce hormones which stimulate cellular multiplication so that the tissues heal. The Institutum scientists set out to manufacture these Hypothetical hormones (which Dr. Sperti" christened "biodynes") in the laboratory so that they could be applied to human wounds to accelerate healing. At first the biodynes were created by exposing tissues from rat and chicken embryos to ultraviolet rays. This injured some of the cells and induced production of the healing substances in them. The scientists now extract...
...town, like France's Carcassonne and Holland's Naarden (see cut), resembled the organic cell of animal and plant life, its spired cathedral forming a spiritual nucleus for its web of radiating, labyrinthine streets, its outer battlements and surrounding "greenbelt" of farms and forests providing a protective cellular wall...
Main problem of the modern city planner, according to Planner Saarinen's philosophy, is to restore to the modern city some of that ease, convenience and organic unity that it lost when the whims of Renaissance architecture and the chaotic growth of industrialism destroyed its cellular form. But the solution of that problem is complicated. The widening of streets, laying out of parks and recreation centers, construction of parkways are merely temporary reliefs. The modern city soon outgrows them, devouring its suburban areas in a chaotic and vicious cycle. Suburban speculation leads to increased land values, increased value...