Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rainbow of Colors. To measure this tiny quantity-less than a millionth of the energy needed to split the nucleus of an atom-the scientists devised an ingenious technique. Light from a 200-watt mercury vapor lamp was focused on a diffraction grating, which, like a prism, broke up the beam into its constituent rainbow of colors, its separate wave lengths of light. By rotating the grating to a carefully calculated angle, the scientists were able to reflect light of a single, specific wave length at a target. Knowing the wave length, they were able to determine precisely the energy...
...gathers samples of toiletries and tobacco products that manufacturers usually give away free, boxes them into "Campus-Pacs," and distributes them through college stores. His Guest Pac Corp. recently sold its 10 millionth box and, with the obvious inspiration of a public-relations man, celebrated by giving a $250 scholarship to the M.I.T. coed, Laura Miller...
...entire movie takes place during Dennis Barlow's unlikely visit to the United States. He was at the airport in London when suddenly he became the ten millionth person to see someone off and won a free trip to Calcutta or Los Angeles. Poor guy chose you-know-what and plunged himself into an incredible chamber of horrors. Shortly after Barlow's arrival his British uncle, a failure in the movie industry, commits suicide, leaving the hapless boy to make all the funeral arrangements--and what funeral arrangements...
Auto sales in mid-April were 14% greater than a year ago, and Detroit's six-millionth car of the model year rolled off the production line three weeks ahead of the 1964 pace. Orders for machine tools hit a nine-month peak in March. U.S. industry is spending considerably more this year on plant expansion and new equipment than originally estimated; at the present rate, 1965 capital spending is expected to soar 15%, to more than $51 billion...
...Next 10 Million. Opel increased production last year by 20%, but to keep up the pace it recently bought land in Kaiserslautern for a new plant, its fourth in Germany. This month G.M. rolled out its 10 millionth vehicle produced in 41 years of operations overseas; at the rate it is going now, it will turn out the next 10 million in only seven years. For Roche, one personal result of G.M.'s spectacular European gains has been his rise to serious contention for the G.M. presidency, from which John Gordon retires...