Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perennial search for something to head off or cure the common cold, two doctors at the Permanente Foundation Hospital in Oakland, Calif, (established in 1942 by Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser) gave twice-daily doses of penicillin to almost 1,500 volunteers. An equal number, serving as controls, were given chalk pills...
...table, the patient could hear nothing else. He could see nothing except the grey, perforated wallboard beyond his feet. But coursing through his neck, in invisible bursts 180 times a second, was a beam of X rays whipped up by the 25 million volts to a speed almost exactly equal to that of light. The beam was aimed at the center of the cancer...
...inevitable impact of Carter's sermon, written by a liberal with a capital L, is to fortify the complacency and indifference of the South. [Nothing he said] could not have been written with equal ardor by a Southern Conservative...
...Other things being equal, experts know that the more desirable bourbon is aged in a new, charred, white oak barrel, as opposed to used cooperage...
...example, after training at his Pasadena plant, managed to boost their own man-hour output by 50%. The result: Joyce footwear that sells in the U.S. for $2.95 to $10.95 sells for only a little more in Britain, which is about half the price of competing models of equal quality. By combining quality and economy, Joyce has built his foreign income until it accounts for about one-third of his gross, by shrewd arrangements collects it in dollars. "What I am exporting," says Joyce, "is technique...