Word: kilogram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feats of endurance and strength, but appropriate motivation in the wake state, if properly applied, can also increase the physical capacity of the subject. In an experiment designed to test the effect of hypnosis versus that of motivation on the physical capacity, Dr. Orne had hypnotized subjects hold a kilogram weight at arm's length. They were told that their arm was resting on a table (hallucinated) and that they could feel no discomfort in it. They were asked to hold the weight as long as possible without dropping it or lowering their arm. Every effort was made to maximize...
...Animas Valley, Health Service scientists came across a second, even more alarming danger. Vegetables grown by irrigation contained not only 'radium (from the water), but also surprising amounts of strontium 90, which could have come only from nuclear-test fallout. Peas ranged as high as 250 micromicrocuries per kilogram (2.2 lbs.); cabbages went up to 315 micromicrocuries. One sample of lettuce had 970 micromicrocuries. The reading was twelve times the maximum permissible level set by the Atomic Energy Commission...
Doherty Roadhouse tailored its service to the varying requirements of its potential customers. A kilogram (32 troy oz.) bar of Canadian gold approximately the size and shape of a 10? chocolate bar sold for $1,126 (at the Toronto price of $35.20 an ounce). For the Rolls-Royce trade, the large-size bar (400 oz.) cost...
...Washington, the President and the Atomic Energy Commission's Lewis Strauss more than doubled-to 100,000 kilograms (220,000 lbs.)-the amount of uranium 235 to be made available under the Atoms for Peace program for lease or sale at home and abroad. Of the new 59,000-kilogram allocation, to be "distributed over a number of years," 1) 30,000 kilograms will be for use in the U.S., principally for power reactors on a lease basis; and 2) 29,800 kilograms will go abroad through sale or lease to individual nations (but not to Russia...
...foreign investment in Brazil, and lessens the country's eligibility for loans or direct aid from Washington. It has also had a disastrous effect on Brazilian workers. The real wages of many workers in Rio shrank within the past five years, as beef soared from 9 cruzeiros a kilogram in 1950 to 46 today, butter from 34 to no. One of the odder symptoms of mass discontent is the mushroom growth of umbanda or espiritismo, a white-magic religious cult with elaborate African rituals. There were 75,000 registered espiri-tistas...