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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...
Research like this was handy early in the war, when only a millionth of a gram of plutonium was available for study...
...week-long Christmas furlough for some inmates. They were packed off with Abstinyl tablets in their pockets for self-treatment. Dosage must be carefully regulated by a doctor; the amount needed varies with the patient. Sweden's Temperance Control Department reports best results from doses averaging four half-gram tablets the first day, two the next two days, one tablet a day until all desire for alcohol is lost...