Word: slides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Socialite Hart's desire to slide into Charlie Potter's Senate seat was a sure sign not only of his own political ambition but of "Soapy" Williams' state of mind as well. Aware that the U.S. Senate is reputedly a graveyard for presidential hopefuls, Soapy evidently had decided that an unprecedented sixth term as governor of Michigan would make a more promising jumping-off point...
...what Chairman Lewis L. Strauss considers "impressive progress," the Atomic Energy Commission is beset on all sides-especially by U.S. businessmen who fear, as one said, that "just as little Sputnik has been worth billions to Russia, so we will fail to earn billions if we allow ourselves to slide into a secondary position." For how far and how fast the U.S. is traveling along the road to commercial nuclear power, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Atomic Power...
...share v. $13.23 in 1956. The drop surprised few Wall Streeters, who are figuring on similar drops for Kennecott's competitors. They estimate Anaconda earnings at slightly over $4 v. $12.85 m J956 and Phelps Dodge at around $4.40 v. $8.72. Principal reason for the drop: a price slide that Kennecott's President Charles R. Cox called a "debacle." Three weeks ago Kennecott set the pace for domestic producers by dropping its price from 27? to 25? per lb., lowest in five years and down 46% from the record 46.7?^ in March 1956. On the London Metal Exchange...
...capsules had the same dosage of tin salt and "vitamin F." When the tin began oxidizing, further increasing its poisonous effect, the manufacturers merely noted that the ingredients became darker, and added artificial coloring to the gelatin coating. The ironic climax of the toxicologist's testimony: a slide demonstrating how staphylococci, which can be destroyed by antibiotics, actually proliferated and prospered when treated with Stalinon...
...organs and appendages (Leo governs the heart; Pisces governs his feet) as well as his temperament (choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic or melancholic), the chart carries the zodiac year on the outer ring, the calendar on the inner ring, to be lined up with the center as a sort of ovaloid slide rule. Behind the Zodiac Man stands a near mirror image of a "Vein Man," another medical illustration, which usually indicates by dots the places appropriate for bleeding...