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...from 30 million cans a year to 48 million. Sales of its maker, George A. Hormel & Co. of Austin, Minn., are racing 12% ahead of last year's pace, will probably top $400 million in 1959. This week Spam passed its proudest milestone: Hormel & Co. produced its one billionth...
...Mark V Computer off to Tibet with two technicians, George and Chuck. As "electromatic" typewriters tap out the giant brain's findings, George and Chuck begin to have qualms. The high lama believes that the world will come to an end when Mark V emits the 9 billionth name of God. What if the monks turn violent when the Last Trump fails to sound...
...electronic brains that automatically keep track of passenger demand, electronic "Ph meters" that can test with equal ease the acidity of California's lemon juice or the radioactivity of the AEC's plutonium, electronic "stopwatches" for industrial and nuclear use that can time movement down to one-billionth of a second v. one-hundredth of a second for mechanical watches...
...Wilhelm Bothe, 66, Prussian-born nuclear physicist who in 1930 produced unexpected radiation by bombarding beryllium with alpha particles, and thus led to the discovery of the neutron, in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his development and use of the "coincidence method" of measuring time with billionth-of-a-second accuracy; after long illness; in Heidelberg, West Germany...
...guinea pigs to test for irritating effects. The neotoxic age has brought DDT and still more lethal sprays, some of which stay on fruits and vegetables all the way to the dinner table. FDA permits only the minutest residues, has devised tests that will detect less than a billionth of an ounce of pesticide...