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Brazilian Dr. Lauro Sollero studies how one billionth of a gram of serotonin (a powerful, blood pressure-raising chemical isolated by Page and colleagues) makes a strip of rat uterus contract, and the ways in which serotonin and other body chemicals cancel each other's effects. Dr. James McCubbin is probing breakdowns in nerve impulses that throw blood-pressure control out of kilter. Famed Internist Willem Kolff, who invented the artificial kidney when his native Netherlands was under Nazi occupation, has developed a $14 model in a gallon can. Dr. Page himself spends two or three days a week...
...growing state. Last week, in his annual report, P. G. & E.'s President James Byers Black told how fast the company has grown. Since the end of World War II, P. G. & E. has spent a phenomenal $385,000 a day on expansion. Last month, it spent its billionth postwar dollar-and is still far from finished. It will go on spending at the rate of $385,000 a day until it has spent another $500 million...
...plant that Andrew Carnegie once owned, and it was the keystone of the great 1901 merger on which U.S. Steel was built. Now, half a century later, Chairman-President Ben Fairless and his aides came to witness another milestone: the pouring of Big Steel's one billionth ton of metal. Never before in world history had one company made as much; it was twice as much as all the mills in Russia had ever made. It was enough to build a 22-ft.-wide bridge around the world seven times...
...John T. Burwell Jr. of M.I.T. uses bearings made of radioactive steel to investigate the basic facts of friction. He can tell if one hundred-billionth of an ounce of metal is transferred from one bearing surface to another...
...year-old war veteran named Charles J. F. Porter went to New York's National City Bank, asked for a $312 loan, got it, and was then startled half to death. Bank officials discovered he had borrowed the billionth dollar granted by the institution's personal loan department and celebrated by airily telling him he wouldn't have to pay the money back...