Word: filterers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Asleep at 60. There must be many other channels. BDAC headquarters in Washington estimate that only half of the 5 billion amphetamine tablets produced in the U.S. each year are sold legally on prescription as psychic stimulants and appetite depressants. The rest filter into the black market...
...linkage tails, Dr. Nishihara pours collagen into thin sheets resembling cellophane. The resulting membrane makes fine, easily digestible sausage casing. It also gave the Rogosin Labs' Dr. Rubin and Dr. Kurt Stenzel an idea for its first medical application-use in the artificial kidney, which has a filter membrane of sausage-casing cellophane. In laboratory glassware the collagen membrane has already done a better filtering job than cellophane; specially prepared collagen sheets will now be tested in artificial kidneys for animals in the laboratory...
Current smokes include almost anything from the supermarket spice and herb shelves plus dried hydrangea leaves, chlorine-soaked lettuce, and green peppers (aged until rotten, then used as a bulbous cigarette filter). But far and away the biggest new fad is tripping on banana peels...
...king (80-100 millimeters), R-regular (70 mm.), F-filter, M-menthol, D-denicotinized...
Both companies could use a shot of some sort. The fifth-ranked U.S. to bacco company, Lorillard last year earned $29 million on sales of $510 million, but its profits have barely budged since the late 1950s, when its filter, Kent, stole the low-tar-and-nico-tine march on the industry. Chairman Manuel Yellen, 54, last year offered a new filter brand, True, both plain and mentholated; though True is highly successful so far, sales have just begun to make up for its heavy introductory costs in a market now choked with competition...