Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia, train-building Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. turned out its millionth aerial bomb. > In Detroit, where Ford and General Motors are getting ready to join Chrysler in producing tanks, the national production rate (now about 25 a day) is expected to reach 100 a day by spring...
...biotin (recognized 40 years ago). Dr. du Vigneaud, who analyzed its structure, said that biotin is extremely powerful, very difficult to make. Only a few grams have been synthesized-at a cost that would come to $63,800,000 a pound. In an early experiment one and one-half millionth of a gram was obtained from 40,000 Ib. of egg yolks. A primitive protein related to urea, biotin occurs in all living cells and is best known as the antagonist of another protein called avidin, which occurs in raw egg white. One of the biggest problems in biochemistry today...
...with an explosion visible from the earth. About 1,000 meteors that size must have fallen moonward in the past century, but no explosion has been seen. Therefore, the moon must have enough atmosphere to consume them long before they could make pockmarks. Probably it is only one millionth as dense as the earth's atmosphere at the surface, but 80 miles up it may be as dense as ours (because of the moon's lesser gravitational pull), and the earth's atmosphere 80 miles up is still dense enough to destroy most meteors in a flash...
...micrography, also showed a picture of a tobacco mosaic molecule about to be destroyed by an encircling legion of antibodies manufactured in the bodies of rabbits in which the virus had been injected. The pictures confirmed Stanley's theoretical reckoning that this molecule is about 20-millionths of an inch long and three-fifths of a millionth of an inch in diameter...
...Keuka College, N. Y., his widow received the millionth copy of General Henry Martyn Robert's parliamentary classic, Rules of Order...