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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unit that science uses to measure radiation exposure is the rem. It expresses a fixed amount of absorbed energy, corrected for the biological effects of different kinds of radiation. Radiation's vital targets: gonads and bone marrow. From natural sources, the average man is exposed to about one-tenth rem annually. In developed countries, he may also get almost as much extra each year from medical and dental X rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Much Radiation? | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Taxes & Tourists. With many former German shipyards now in Communist territory, West Germany still ranks only tenth in world tonnage, v. fifth before the war. But the fact that it has climbed even that high is remarkable, because World War II wiped out the German merchant marine. Ninety-seven percent of Germany's total tonnage was sunk or captured, the rest confiscated. Scraping together what slim funds were available, German shipbuilders started in 1949 to rebuild their fleet. To help them along, the government decreed that money invested in merchant ships could be deducted from income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Back to Sea | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Carthage, Ill.) to a present pinnacle of prosperity and respectable good will. Today the Mormons, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, own canneries, insurance companies, banks, number among their ruling Twelve Apostles a U.S. Cabinet officer (Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson). Members in good standing donate a tenth of their incomes to the church. Five thousand missionaries from the U.S. and 1,700 native missionaries are hard at work and there are Mormons in every country of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pageant of the Tablets | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...growing up in Jackson, Mich. But wherever he went, his childhood memories are almost all somber ("I never had a childhood. I was born an old man"). When he was five, an older brother was killed by a car. All that comes back to Jack from his tenth year is the death of his best friend. "I went to the funeral,'' he remembers now, "and I didn't know what to do. My heart was breaking, and all I could think of was to break balloons through the service. Then I went home and bawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Late-Night Affair | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Illustrating the final characteristic statistically, Halsey showed that approximately one-tenth of the children of unskilled workers attend universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Halsey Charges English Colleges Form Hierarchy | 8/14/1958 | See Source »

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