Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Telephone & Telegraph Co. this week became the first corporation in the world to have a million stockholders. The millionth: Brady Denton, 33, a Buick salesman in Saginaw, Mich., who, with his wife as joint owner, bought seven shares of A.T. & T. at $155 a share, will get $63 in dividends every year...
...virus of poliomyelitis, one of the smallest disease-causing organisms, is less than a millionth of an inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...
Lucky. At Pimlico, Md., after losing approximately $1,000 a year for 20 years betting on the ponies, Fred C. Brogan finally came home a winner: as the track's 12 millionth customer, he got an inscribed "Good Luck" horseshoe...
...Illinois betatron, the electrons circle a nine-foot, doughnut-shaped tube 140,000 times in four one-thousandths of a second, reach a speed only one-millionth part less than the speed of light. In accordance with Einstein's laws of relativity, the speed increases their mass 600 times. (The last few m.p.h. come hardest. Theoretically, if they reached the speed of light, their mass would be infinite-which is impossible...