Word: waters
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Typhoid. Fortnight ago, workmen accidentally let the dirty Genesee River water flow into Rochester's water mains (TIME, Dec. 23). Since the typhoid bacillus may take as long as 42 days to incubate, Rochesterians last week still had days of suspense ahead of them. Many were cheered when a former superintendent of waterworks made the startling confession that the same mistake had been made several times before, "without too much publicity...
Bred in the academic tradition, Whitney at first ventured only a gingerly toe into the unknown water of industrial research. When he found that he really had a free hand, he took on the G. E. experiment as a full-time job. Things began to hum. The basic experiments of William Coolidge on tungsten, of Irving Langmuir on gas-filled (instead of evacuated) bulbs led to modern electric lamps. The Coolidge and Langmuir experiments also produced high-power X-ray tubes, portable X-ray sets, high-capacity electronic tubes...
...Standard Oil and Goodrich built plants to make synthetic rubber (which is no trick) and to make it cheaply and in tonnage (which is). Meanwhile, among hundreds of unsung corporate pioneers, Champion Paper & Fibre made newsprint from Southern pine, and Dow Chemical extracted magnesium from the sea water that laps Freeport, Tex. What may yet prove the year's most useful discovery was less romantic: at South Bend, Studebaker was testing out a turret-lathe that could turn one shell a minute...
With the Supreme Court's Los Angeles lumber case to guide it (TIME, Dec. 18, 1939), the ICC in reorganization cases has recently shown little mercy to common stockholders whose equity is under water. Its plan for the Missouri Pacific last January wiped the common out entirely. Last spring it worked out a plan for Erie. To placate the two major interests- which had been bickering since Erie fell into receivership-ICC effected a compromise. The interests: 1) the Erie bondholders; 2) the C. & O., which held 56% of the voting power. The compromise: capitalization would be slashed from...
...double-decker bunks. They are allowed to use the high-walled prison yard at any time. But they must eat, sleep, get up by military schedule. Food is reported to be the same ration given German civilians-one course of stew with bread on the side. There is hot water daily, but baths only every ten days. Prisoners have only the clothes they brought along. There are no books. For recreation, the prisoners are allowed to play cards, and there is an empty room where an acrobatic dancer practices while others watch. Some of the men are learning the steps...