Word: containerization
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From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis., diarrhea, salamonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place...
Cheery "Blue." The three main defoliants, each cheerily known by the color of the band on its container, do their job with convincing efficiency. "Blue" contains arsenic and burns the juices out of narrow-leaf grasses and rice. "White," a mixture of a persistent chemical called Picloram and 2,4...
Both American and French designers settled on plutonium-238 as the best radioactive source. The artificially produced element emits "soft" alpha particles, which have so little energy that they will not penetrate a sheet of heavy notepaper; thus they will not harm a patient. The French put 150 mg. (about...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis, diarrhea, anthrax, salmonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you...
In testimony before the Senate Committee on Public Works last week, Richard L. Cheney, executive director of the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute, called attention to an experimental product called "glasphalt." Developed at the University of Missouri, it uses finely ground glass granules to replace the rock aggregates now used as...