Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...auto industry turned out its millionth compact in 1960 two weeks ahead of schedule. To mark the occasion, American Motors President George Romney, the small-car apostle who forced Detroit into the compact market, finally laid to rest rumors that had buzzed around Wall Street for three years: that American Motors would merge with Chrysler Corp. Romney feared that the persistent reports were damaging American Motors' future as well as the price of its stock, which is now about 30% below its 1959 high. Said he: "They are not only completely untrue but unfair to everyone...
...cars were nearly 7% above May of last year, represented the best daily-average selling rate (22,610) since September 1955. The industry is now running some 13% ahead of 1959's so-so year. Within the next fortnight, the U.S. auto industry expects to turn out its millionth compact...
...standard miracles of pressagentry, it had been determined that Andrejs was the one-millionth European helped financially or otherwise to emigrate since the U.S. and 28 other nations created the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. In its eight years the agency has assisted 179,000 Europeans to migrate to the United States. Another 290,000 went to Australia, 252,000 were settled in South America. The agency pays transportation, conducts language courses, provides orientation information about the migrants' new country. Total expenses: $270 million (up to 45% supplied...
...cylindrical chamber about 30 inches long in which deuterium is squeezed by a sudden magnetic shock. The squeeze produces an egg-shaped fireball about 0.8 in. long containing five times 1016 (50 million billion) deuterium nuclei at a temperature of 13,000,000°C. It lasts about 0.9 millionth of a second, and spits out about io million neutrons...
...exclude the severely depressed, including potential suicides, and those adjudged in danger of a severe emotional breakdown (psychosis). Then, after four foodless hours, the patients are ensconced on a couch in a comfortable, carpeted room with classical music piped in. After the tasteless shot of as little as a millionth of an ounce of LSD in water, they lie down and are fitted with blinders (a "sleep shield"). To make sure that they shut out external stimuli, some also wear wax and cotton earplugs...