Word: gramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generations, the German hausfrau who prides herself on her cakes and cookies has owed her reputation to Dr. August Oetker. Dr. Oetker's baking powder has helped better her batter since the '90s, and raised its price only once (by 2 pfennigs to 12 for a 17-gram packet). And Herr Doctor's Baking Is Fun has sold 20 million copies-more than any other book in Germany save the Bible...
...coin was large (1⅝in. diameter), and among Arabs and Africans, who prize ample women, the profile of the Empress' thrusting decolletage was almost as ap pealing as the thaler's 23.4-gram silver content. So great was the demand for the coin that even after Maria Theresa's death the Vienna mint continued to make thalers, which, to convince untutored natives of their authenticity, were stamped 1780, the year the Empress died. Decade after decade, thalers continued to tinkle at bazaars from Istanbul to Yemen. Islamic missionaries carried the coins into Africa, where traders used...
...will be felt in the Chrysler '645. For inspiration he plans to visit Cape Canaveral to watch the mis siles fly by. "Can't you just imagine," he remarks, "how beautiful one of those things would look on four wheels?" Townsend's rigid quality-control pro gram enabled the company to cut its warranty costs on the '62 models by 30%, and Chrysler now offers a five-year war ranty on '63 motors and drive mechanisms. Says a top Chrysler man: "Three years ago we would have gone broke paying claims on this kind...
Salty Man. Strauss became Hoover's private secretary, accompanied him to Europe to help with the food relief pro gram. Strauss provides glimpses of a salty Hoover. "Young man," a British admiral said to Hoover, "I don't see why you American chaps want to feed those bloody Germans." Snapped Hoover: "Old man, we can' t understand why you British chaps want to starve women and children after they are licked...
...sensitivity of the technique extends to one-billionth of a gram. It is a marvel at detecting the presence of poison, easily spotting a thimbleful dissolved in ten tank cars of water. Neutron analysis can get along with specimens far smaller than those needed for conventional chemical analysis: a fragment of lint, a strand of hair, a fleck of paint will suffice. Happily, the radioactivity caused by the neutrons soon dies down, and once studied, the evidence can safely be brought into a courtroom...