Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rump like the back of a taxicab. Around the barn, the standing joke is that the "big horse" must have been eating from the same trough with Jake Hizar, the fat (264-lb.) foreman. To pare Citation down to racing weight, Ben Jones is giving him a double dose of work-one gallop at 6 a.m. and another an hour and a half later...
Typical machines in shoe stores, Dr. Williams found, deliver from five to 58 times the maximum dose considered safe by the American Standards Association and the New York City Health Department. The safe dose is two roentgens for each exposure. The safest machine examined by Williams delivered two roentgens in four seconds; the most dangerous delivered the dose in one-third of a second. Exposures range from five to 45 seconds; the one most often used is 20 seconds...
Even if a single dose is brought down within safe limits, a child is still in danger of overexposure. Most authorities set three exposures in one day, or twelve in a year, as the maximum allowable. But on many machines there is nothing to keep a moppet from pressing the button again & again to see his wiggling toes. And if mother is hard to please, the salesman will want to give her another look...
...slogan was "retrenchment." It would mean a halt to further expansion and perhaps a cutback in social services, wage freezing and other painful economic measures, all designed to strengthen British competitive power in the dollar market. What retrenchment really added up to was an attempt to inject a strong dose of competition and incentive into an increasingly security-minded Britain...
Cortisone is made, in 37 chemical steps over a six-month period, from the bile of slaughtered oxen (40 head are required for a single daily dose). Merck & Co., who make it, produce only about 1½ ounces a week. Acutely conscious of the desperate demand, research chemists have been plugging away at the problem, trying to speed the process and eventually mass-produce the drug...