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...Bathtubful. Are fluorides poisonous? Yes, says Dr. Dublin-in the same way as common salt, oxygen and water, which "can kill you if you get too much of them." But, he adds, "to absorb a lethal amount of fluoridated water would require drinking 50 bathtubfuls at a sitting ... To produce even the mildest symptoms of fluoride poisoning would require that the victim swallow two-and-a-half bathtubfuls . . . during a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Figures & Fluorides | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

NATIONALIZATION THREAT faces Western Union, other international cable companies in France. Paris government is pushing to absorb these companies in its postal ministry, wants to collect as much as 50% of tolls on all international cables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 22, 1957 | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...price increases have been immediately felt throughout the economy as users rushed to pass on the hike to the consumer. But there was considerable doubt that last week's boost would set off a round of consumer price rises. Competition is intense, and many industries may prefer to absorb the increases-which amount to only $11.58 on a $3,000 car, 66? on a $300 refrigerator-rather than raise prices; others may delay price increases for many months. A spokesman for one of the big three automakers said, for example, that he did not expect the steel increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Price Rise | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Telltale Band. Most important was proof that organic (carbon-hydrogen) compounds probably exist on Mars. Dr. William Sinton of the Smithsonian Institution started with the fact that compounds containing carbon, when joined to hydrogen, absorb infra-red radiation with a wave length of 3.46 microns. His first step was to look for this absorption band in infra-red light reflected from dry leaves, lichens and mosses, which are made almost entirely of carbon-hydrogen compounds. It showed up strongly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life on Mars? | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...geographical unity, its great river valley, and after three generations under a British-created monarch, its own political and economic institutions. Above all, it has oil. Among Arab states, Egypt and Syria lack the oil-creating wealth, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf sheikdoms the economy that can absorb it. Iraq, alone of all Arab nations, has both, and on the wave of its oil royalties it has launched an ambitious program of economic development that is transforming the political balances of the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Pasha | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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