Word: gram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Selman Waksman, is one of the world's top microbiologists. He has won for his university not only fame but fortune. Streptomycin for a 60-day course of treatment costs $60 to $80. A dozen chemical companies are turning out the new wonder drug, and for every gram (1/28 of an ounce) sold, Rutgers gets 2?. By last week, the university's harvest of pennies had reached more than...
...Every place that is favorable for the growth of micro-organisms (and most places are) is a churning battleground of small, fierce creatures. A pinch of moist soil weighing one gram, for instance, may contain more bacteria (up to 2 billion) than there are people on earth. Among the ordinary creatures prowl savage protozoa engulfing them one by one. There is an underworld, too, made up of submicroscopic viruses, hardly more than big molecules, which often invade the larger organisms and multiply explosively...
According to Science Service, though, the practice has been going on for twenty years. Saccharin lipstick was first tried experimentally in 1925, and now one ton of the chemical is used every year. But the substance is go potent that daily one two-hundredth of a gram goes into each lipstick...
Your ["Four-Gram Jitters," TIME, May 30] was unfair and inaccurate...
Money for the institute's future will come from streptomycin, the best treatment yet discovered for tuberculosis. By all the signs, there will be plenty of money to work with. Eight pharmaceutical companies pay the foundation 2½% of the price they get, now $1 or less a gram; production, steadily rising, has reached 8,000,000 grams a month, which means almost $200,000 a month income...