Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...eight roentgens of radiation per hour. In about ten days this would build up to the lethal dose of 2,000 roentgens. The period of grace, thinks Ridenour, makes radiological poison a rather humane weapon. The inhabitants of a contaminated city could save their lives if they set out promptly...
Last fall, in a move toward a negotiated peace, the academicians agreed to let the Tate take a hand in the picking. The first purchase under the new system, a tasteful portrait by Augustus John, seemed to satisfy everybody. With the second, the conservatives set up a howl...
...slow-motion probing of the Administration for a set of 'painless' controls' has turned the steel market into a whirlpool of frenzy and uncertainty," said Iron Age last week. "The race for steel [is] a mad scramble, with no holds barred...
...aircraft industry this week pulled out of its long dive. The Air Force promise to spend $4.4 billion on new aircraft orders (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) set aircraftmakers furiously scurrying for the men, tools and materials to flesh out their skeleton assembly lines...
...General Motors turned in a six-month net of $485.2 million, 59% greater than in the 1949 period. G.M., which had already set a record for U.S. corporate profits with a first-quarter net of $212.3 million, in the second quarter smashed its own record with profits of $272.8 million...