Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whisky, moonshiners have plied their intermittent trade in Dixie's piney woods. They still make a lively dew. At times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...
...next batch of natives, the brave and cannibalistic Maoris of New Zealand, breathed fire. In full fighting regalia, they would yell from their war canoes: "Come to us, come on shore and we will kill you all with our patoo-patoos!" While the Maoris did not brain any of Cook's men with their patoo-patoos (war clubs), Cook got rattled for a rare moment during a sudden Maori foray and ordered his men to open fire. Four of the tribesmen were killed, to the kindly Cook's lasting regret...
Barley & Rice. Anyone can (and millions did, during Prohibition) brew a batch of beer. But its uniform mass production is a highly technical manufacturing process. At Anheuser-Busch, the brewmasters claim that Budweiser and its higher-priced companion beer Michelob (sold only on draught) have only the finest ingredients, e.g., imported hops, rice instead of oily corn grits, and two-row "Hannchen" barley, whose two rows of kernels in the head are bigger, more even, and contain more starch and less moisture than the more prevalent six-row barley kernels...
...Until requirements were tightened recently, different manufacturers were operating with apparently different safety factors: two companies made such faithful tests that they had a 99.9% or better chance of detecting a bad batch; one had only a 65% chance, another...
...When P.H.S. licensed six firms to manufacture vaccine last April, both P.H.S. and the vaccine's developer. Dr. Jonas E. Salk, urged that manufacturers be required to show that they could produce safe vaccine consistently, in batch after batch. But this requirement was neither defined by P.H.S. nor was it enforced by the Government agency. As a result, manufacturers told P.H.S. only about the batches they considered safe, did not report on those that went down the drain as obviously dangerous. Hence, P.H.S. was not aware of how the odds were running against safe vaccine...