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...will get sick if he ingests .25 gm. of fluoride in one day, very sick on 1 gm., and will die with 4 to 8 gm. To ingest even that first .25 gm., he would have to drink more than half a bathtubful of water (42 gal.) containing 1 p.p.m., or, for 1 gm., more than three bathtubfuls (or 276 gal.). Long before he could become ill from the fluoride, he would be dead from water intoxication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fluorides Revisited | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

...produce unleaded gasoline at present high-octane ratings. That would require the oilmen to build many new refineries, which would cost their industry about $4 billion, according to the American Petroleum Institute. That cost would be passed on to the consumer in higher gas prices-perhaps 20 per gal.-atop the extra cost of pollution-control devices on the car. By contrast, unleaded gasoline at lower octane ratings can be produced with relatively little changeover or cost by the oil companies, and with no price penalty. With all this taken into consideration many experts feel that the most economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Getting the Lead Out | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...allows for many complications in the lives of three characters. Murray Schis-gal's comedy opens for a week in Southbury, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Aug. 22, 1969 | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Another successful manufacturer is Wynn Oil Co., which promotes three oil additives, including "Charge!" The company was founded in 1939 by Ches-tien Wynn, a lawyer who mixed a homebrew "friction proofing" in a 55-gal. drum and sold bottles of it to local garages. Sales last year were $14 million. The Bardahl Mfg. Corp. markets 18 products in 82 countries. Its private owners do not disclose sales figures, but the company is probably third in size, behind STP and Wynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Big Profits in Little Cans | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...many personal penchants picked up in the course of a broadcast career that began shortly after he got his college degree from Washington University in St. Louis, majoring in abnormal psychology. He was visiting New York City in 1937, as he tells it, when "some gal got me drunk and I woke up next morning as an NBC page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comebacks: Peace, Old Tiger | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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