Word: gm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average caponette weighs 2,500 gm. (about 5½ Ibs.). So, by the FDA's top-hazard figures, a roast-caponette fancier would get only a minute fraction of a milligram of stilbestrol if he ate all the skin fat and liver. Medical doses of stilbestrol for human patients cover a wide range beginning at .1 mg. daily, but often run to 15 mg. daily, and may go as high...
...restores the clotting power of blood, which may almost vanish when a woman hemorrhages during labor, or in patients of either sex after major surgery. Average cost of fibrinogen to the patient: $50 to $55 a gram (1/30 oz.). Average amount used in a single course of treatment: 4 gm...
Concludes Manufacturer Cutter (which gets $32.91 for a r-gm. injection kit, leaves the service markup to the discretion of the hospital): "We wanted to explain the high cost of the product, even if we could not make the bill any easier...
...faced plenty of labor problems. At week's end some 27,000 Chrysler workers were still out, along with 300,000 G.M. workers. Many of them threatened to stay out until they settled such local issues as washup time, shift-preference procedure. U.A.W. President Walter Reuther said all GM. locals were on authorized strikes, "free to press for settlement of local issues and grievances [with] full support of the international union." G.M. feared local issues would keep thousands of workers away for days to come...
When the strikers walked out, the shutdown of GM's automotive division was completed within an hour