Word: gram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scarce and expensive drugs are the potential jackpot payoffs of pharmaceutical chemistry. Right now one of the most valuable is the steroid hormone, cortisone, which sells at wholesale for $23 a gram. Reason: under present commercial methods, it takes the bile from 1,000 tons of cattle to make a month's supply of cortisone for a single arthritis patient...
About 70% of the potential energy of alcohol can be used this way, Dr. Daniel suggests. "This would mean that five calories are liberated by the oxidation of one gram of pure ethyl alcohol in the body." But the findings were intended as no special endorsement of cocktails. There is more nutrition in a 5? candy bar than in a 50? Martini...
...standard unit of radioactivity, a curie (for Marie and Pierre Curie, discoverers of radium), originally was used to describe the activity of one gram of radium, is now defined as 37 billion atomic disintegrations per second...
...phenomenon that Charlie Wilson had learned to take almost for granted. In seven years as president of the General Electric Co., he was ringmaster of one of the biggest industrial shows on earth: a colossal sprawl of 115 factories which annually produced 200,000 different items (from miniature .06-gram light globes to 100-ton generator shafts) worth more than $1 billion, a talented industrial giant which could reach out and run the Hanford atomic works for the Government as well. During World War II, as the strong man of the WPB, he broke aircraft production bottlenecks and cleared...
...priced car market in Western Europe. Her Moskvich was a big hit at the Brussels auto show. A four-cylinder four-seater, its radiator cap flaunting a red star, the Moskvich sold fast at $978, much the cheapest car at the show. For this quo, plus some gram and minerals, Russia's quid, under a trade treaty with Belgium, included sheet steel, copper, electrical equipment, and $150,000 worth of herring...