Word: hundredfold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chemical Screen. Popular suntan lotions and creams increase tolerance to light rays by factors of four to six, said Dr. Knox. A cream containing one of the best chemical screens known, para-amino-benzoic acid, will increase it a hundredfold. So .will the newest chemical sunscreen family, the benzophenones. Trouble with benzophenones is that they absorb all rays at the spectrum's blue end-including those needed for a fashionable tan. So Dr. Knox suggested that redheads and others with exceptionally fair skins who do not want to freckle use a shutout benzophenone preparation. Others less sensitive...
...quick profits. Many a Wall Street analyst periodically tours the highway, on the hunt for hot new companies. Few investors can understand what many of the companies make. But their eager bidding to get in on the ground floor has sent the prices of some stocks soaring a hundredfold-and more-in the last few years...
...grown from a $14 million midget in 1946 to a $1.5 billion giant-a hundredfold sales increase. From two plants employing 3,500 people, it has spread across the U.S. and all the Western Hemisphere into more than 100 plants with upwards of 100,000 workers...
...Customers poured in. To handle a daily turnover that increased a hundredfold, Gattegno took on 20 employees at wages remarkable for France: $250 a month for salesmen, $225 for the lowliest packer-more than three times the going rate. The first year Gattegno grossed $714,000. Moreover, said he proudly: "I pay my full taxes. I don't have two sets of books...
...fact was overlooked in your Dec. 5 article on the visiting Russians: the conception of Indian hospitality. Nehru received such ovations in Russia that all Indians would be ashamed if the Indians would not return to the Soviet leaders a hundredfold what Nehru received in Russia. What can a host do ? If the guest of honor at your cocktail party gives a hearty belch, would you immediately kick...