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...radioactive equivalent of one one-thousandth of a gram of radium...
CRYSTALLINE VITAMIN D, one gram of which equals 49 million units of vitamin D, has been perfected by Pet Milk Co. chemists. One ounce will pep up 4½ million cans of evaporated milk...
About 1.5% of U.S. hogs are infested, and one gram of infested meat may contain thousands of the parasites. The disease is passed along chiefly by feeding garbage to hogs...
...very heavy drinker, who originally took the drug on a doctor's prescription for an "all-gone feeling." He found that "the effect of the drug was so stimulating that he gave up the use of alcohol. . . ." From a starting dose of a twenty-fifth of a gram a day, he worked up to one-quarter of a gram a day in five years, at the end of which he had to go to several doctors in order to get enough prescriptions. He was by then taking enough to kill most people. All this time he worked...
Borrowing from U.S. financiers, Pros pector La Bine and his prospector-brother Charles built a refinery at Port Hope, Ont., hired scientists to do the technical work, and began producing radium (sale price: $25,000 a gram). It meant little to them that one of the by-products was uranium oxide. Had it not been for World War II, their prosperous Eldorado Mining & Refining Co., Ltd., which netted $280,000 in 1942, might still be producing dividends for shareholders scattered all over the U.S. and Canada...