Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...angstrom equals one one-hundred-millionth of a centimeter...
...playing fast and loose with radium preparations, knowing and recking nothing of the dangers.* The salesman dropped in at the plant in East Orange, NJ. where Radithor was made, horse-traded his guitar for four cases (25 bottles to the case) of elixir. Each tiny bottle contained about a millionth of a gram of radium, the same amount of mesothorium...
...possibility is that Dr. Evans was overconservative back in 1941 when he set the safe "maximum permissible body burden" of radium at one ten-millionth of a gram. If so, some of the alarm about recent fallout may be allayed, because the 1941 radium standard was the base on which all other permissible body burdens have been computed. But if Dr. Evans was overconservative then, it was a good fault: after the haphazard misuse of radium only a decade earlier, a strong corrective was needed...
Your May 26 story on Pabst's 100 millionth barrel celebration in Mettenheim, Germany, presented an interesting point of view on the value of corporate celebrations that involve the press. There is, as I'm sure you're aware, another side to the story...
...case, sending our 100 millionth barrel back to the German birthplace of our founder was a natural gesture of good will and a recognition of our heritage. In a week when anti-Americanism was being manifested around the world from Lebanon to Caracas, the warmth with which we were received by 5,000 people in the Rhine valley was a small, but pleasant, contrast...