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...their deaths, the hospital's officials tried to figure out how the accident happened. Mrs. Lillie Mae Colvin, 29, a Negro practical nurse, mother of three and pregnant, had filled the formula room's canister on Tuesday. She did this from one of two identical 20-gal. galvanized cans standing side by side in the kitchen, their lids marked with stick-on labels that said "sugar" and "salt'' (the salt label was torn). Mrs. Colvin was sure she had filled the canister from the can labeled sugar-but this might have contained salt, perhaps because...
...Fallout protection is an extra amenity claimed for Wheeler's otherwise conventional 43-ft. motor yacht. It has a pump-and-filter system that allows fallout-safe operation for eight to twelve hours; the makers provide enough fuel capacity (300 gal.) to enable a surviving skipper to head for uncontaminated waters. Price: about...
Originally most of the waste was dumped at sea. The materials were packed into 55-gal. drums marked with AEC's radioactivity insigne, a white cloud with four lightning bolts shooting out of it. The drums were lined with 2 to 10 in. of cement, sealed with more cement, and carried by ship to offshore dumping grounds set up by AEC. Two such grounds are off the Atlantic coast, two more are off the coast of California. All four are in water 6,000 ft. deep. Since 1946. about 21,000 drums have been tipped into the Pacific...
...doctors and eight nurses are always available). Two existing company restaurants carry a daily food supply; to supplement that, Hancock has stockpiled 400 cases of Multi-Purpose Food (MPF), one can of which can feed a person for ten days. The company is also counting on 12,000 gal. of water in the building tanks, 25,000 gal. in the building pipes, and 1,250 cases of water in cans...
...dairy production, especially for dairymen who live in states (California, Arizona, Florida) where laws require that dairy cattle be thoroughly washed before milking. By the usual inefficient and costly method, the cow has to be hosed down or herded into a soaking pen, and washing consumes about 30 gal. of water per cow. The Cowash, which uses about 3 gal. per cow, operates pretty much like an automatic automobile washer, with the cow tripping the switches as she moves along the track. Says Corona, Calif.'s Milk Mogul Tony Cardoza: "The cows are much more relaxed now." CJ Automatic...