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Referring to the euphoria that is a symptom of tetraethyl lead poisoning, Midgley told the New York World The essential thing necessary to safely handle TEL was careful discipline of our men. . . The minute a man shows signs of exhilaration he is laid off. If he spills the stuff on himself he is fired. Because he doesn t want to lose his job, he doesn t spill it. Apparently, Midgley s generosity and conviviality did not extend to his workers. 

TEL workers sick House of Butterflies and Midgley at press conference and New York World. 

Advances also often come in two parts, half upon signing the book contract, the other half upon acceptance of the final manuscript or publication of the book. This two-stage advance has led to interesting speculation about the prolific American short-story writer O. Henry. He was a master of surprise endings and often wrote about the life of ordinary people in New York City. The New York World paid him 100 for each of his stories, but because O. Henry did not always deliver his story by the deadline, his editor made sure only to pay half of the advance for the first half of the story and refused to pay the rest until the entire story was received. Some critics have said that this led to O. Henry stories with the second half nearly unrelated to the first Apparently, O. Henry sometimes rushed out anything he could for the first half of the story just to get the 50 and then ignored much of what he had written when completing the tale. 

Quoted in John Kaplan, Marijuana The Netv Prohibition. New York World Pub. Co., 1970, p. 92. 

Leary, T. R. High Priest. New York World, 1968a. 

Interest in reduced-acid citrus juices originated in the early 1960 s when Kilbum and Drager (4) employed electodialysis tc remove citrate ions from juice. The Florida Department of Citrus tested the reduced-acid concept with consumers at the New York World s Fair in 1965, and followed this test with a national consumer survey in 1972. The Coca-Cola Company Foods Division... 

D McBranch, MB Sinclair. Ultrafast photoinduced absorption in nondegenerate ground-state conjugated polymers Signatures of excited states. In NS Sariciftci, ed. Nature of the Photoexcitations in Conjugated Polymers Semiconductor Band vs. Exciton Model, New York World Scientific, 1997. 

Grandjean P, Kello D, Rohrbom G, Tarkowski S. Ecogenetics. Genetic Predisposition to the Toxic Effects of Chemicals. New York World Health Organiza-tion/Chapman Hall, 1991. 

J.-L. Rivail, D. Rinaldi in Computational Chemistry Review of Current Trends, J. Leszczynski ed.. New York World Scientific (1995). 

Myron, Robert. Mounds, Towns and Totems Indians of North America. Qeveland and New York World Publishing Company, 1966. 

Twentieth Century Fund, New York. World Population and Production. in press. 

J. Campbell, Hero With 1000 Faces (New York World, 1965). 

The leaders of DuPont—two brothers, a brother-in-law, a nephew, and a cousin—at the New York World s Fair of 1939. They are previewing the company s Wonder World of Chemistry pavilion, where nylon was first introduced to the public. From left, Irenee du Pont, vice chairman of the board Henry B. du Pont, later a company vice president Ruly Carpenter William du Pont Jr., director and Lammot du Pont, president. (Courtesy of the New York World s Fair 1939-1940 records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.)... 

World Almanac and Book of Facts, New York World Telegram awl Sun, New York (yearly)... 

Oates, W. (1971). The Confessions of a Workaholic The Eacts about Work Addiction. New York World Publishing. 

In the absence of foaming, we can produce a material hard enough for roller blade wheels or soft and pliable enough to mimic leather. In fact, at the New York World s Fair of 1964, DuPont proudly introduced shoes made of Corfam, a polyurethane-based synthetic leather. The shoes were durable and waterproof, and they could be cleaned with a moist cloth. Best of all, Corfam was porous, so the shoes breathed like leather. Within a year, seventy-five million pairs of Corfam shoes had been sold, and the leather industry stopped breathing. But the Corfam fad didn t last. Despite the material s porosity, many complained of hot, sweaty feet, and furthermore, women didn t like the idea of shoes that lasted forever — they wanted new styles every year. So, Corfam became DuPont s Edsel. 

When the New York World started to question the handling of the case, the coroner gave in to the pressure and ordered an exhumation. The lady s remains were found to contain morphine in a dose sufficient to cause death, and Dr. Buchanan went on trial for murder. 

When the boss came back, they told him, and nylon was developed—over a period of 10 years—into a silk-like material. Advertised at the 1939 New York World s Fair as synthetic silk made from coal, air, and water, its application in hosiery for women was demonstrated by a model in a giant test tube. The material was an instant success. Reportedly four million pairs of nylon stockings sold in a few hours in the first New York City sale, but almost immediately sales were restricted and the material commandeered for parachutes. William Carothers did not live to see the success. He died by his own hand in a Philadelphia hotel in 1937. 

Goodenough, F. L. (1926). Measurement of intelligence by drawing. New York World Book. 

Audio-animatronics (Walt Disney) Disney established WED, a research and development unit that developed the inventions he needed for his various enterprises. WED produced the audio-animatronic robotic figures that populated Disneyland, the 1964-1965 New York World s Fair, films, and other attractions. Audio-animatronics enabled robotic characters to speak or sing as well as move. 

Herzberg, F. (1966). Work and the Nature of Man. New York World Publishing Co. 

See Ross, Getting Out, Sam Moskowitz, Explorers of the Infinite Shapers of Science Fiction (New York World, 1963). 

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