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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average caponette weighs 2,500 gm. (about 5½ Ibs.). So, by the FDA's top-hazard figures, a roast-caponette fancier would get only a minute fraction of a milligram of stilbestrol if he ate all the skin fat and liver. Medical doses of stilbestrol for human patients cover a wide range beginning at .1 mg. daily, but often run to 15 mg. daily, and may go as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones & Chickens | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...capacity this week, while Jones & Laughlin, Wheeling Steel, Armco, Allegheny Ludlum hope to hit between 65% and 80%. Throughout the industry, steelmen are cashing in on the care they took in shutting down their furnaces and in keeping maintenance crews in the plants during the strike. Only a fraction of the expected repairs proved to be necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fast Comeback in Steel | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Sick Society. Only an insignificant number of patients were disturbed enough to justify a fraction of these precautions. It was society itself that was insecure and full of irrational fears of what the mentally ill might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Open Door in Psychiatry | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...strings on the DLF were more symbolic than revolutionary, for the DLF's annual loans of $550 million are a fraction of the $5 billion in string-free U.S. economic aid (and most of DLF funds have been spent in the U.S. anyway). But the order touched off editorials that the U.S. was moving backward to a "Buy American" program calculated to subsidize high-priced American products that could not otherwise compete in world markets. Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fired off a barrage of hostile questions to DLF Director Vance Brand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Rap from Rich Uncle | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...last more than several weeks; the most common type is the "one-night stand" or the five-minute meeting in a public park or even a comfort station. With contacts so casual, venereal disease runs wild. (One survey showed that almost 10% of male homosexuals are carriers, v. a fraction of 1% of arrested female prostitutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Strange World | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

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