Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physician named Bruce W. Halstead was hard at work at the College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda, Calif, sorting out a mass of puzzling data and trying to find answers. In his laboratory, four assistants were slicing little samples from the flesh, liver, intestines and gonads of a batch of frozen fish from Johnston Island. After grinding and centrifuging, a cubic centimeter of fluid from each sample was injected into the belly of a mouse. If the sample was weakly poisonous, the mouse got sick but lived; a moderately poisonous sample should kill it within 36 hours...
...since the R.A.F. bombed the gates in 1944 to free a batch of Resistance fighters had anyone escaped from France's grim, grey Amiens prison. It was just the quiet, safe place to send hulkingly handsome Léon Meurant, to await the summons to the guillotine...
Last week, as the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies began its sixth New Year, it was a humming campus with ten different training programs, and this week a new batch of 32 students from 19 states will arrive for special study. Some of the students are professors, some are M.D.s, some are graduates working for advanced degrees. Their fields cover everything from agriculture to biology, chemistry to cancer. In its five short years under Executive Director William Pollard, the institute has become a major mecca, not only for physicists, but for scientists of every sort...
...Boss Mike Di Salle reluctantly cleared the way for a new batch of price rises last week. Acting under the Capehart Amendment to the Defense Production Act, he issued an order permitting some 100,000 businessmen to ask for price boosts if their costs have risen. Among the items affected: clothing, tobacco, wines and liquors, gasoline, drugs and cosmetics, coal, meat and other foods. Automakers, who have already boosted prices about 9% since Korea, got special orders of their own; they may now increase prices as much as 5%. For a man who had once denounced the Capehart Amendment...
...Best Policy. In Hot Springs, Ark., after Moonshiner Martin Kizzar hunted up a tax collector and paid $73.50 on a batch of homemade whiskey, he was arrested for making illegal liquor, put on probation by the judge, who ruled that Kizzar was too honest to be jailed...