Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australia, Dr. Kate Campbell recalled that R.L.F. had first appeared in Women's Hospital when new incubators were installed and all premature babies began to get liberal doses of oxygen. In Birmingham, England, doctors pointed out that the incidence of R.L.F. rose when premature infants began to get larger and longer doses of oxygen. When oxygen was reduced, the frequency of the disease decreased...
Behind carefully guarded doors this week, U.S. automakers are putting down the chips in a $350 million poker game. The stake: the cost of retooling for new models for 1954. The biggest bets are being placed on larger, more rakish-looking cars and more powerful engines. The use of power steering, power brakes and automatic transmissions has spread so fast that they will all be optional equipment on most lower-priced lines. Among the big changes...
...Approach. Manufacturers should study future tax needs of any community, before moving there, Tomb warns. "Southern states have a larger proportion of school-age children and correspondingly larger needs for educational funds . . . As southern cities and towns grow with the expansion of industrial activity, everyone will want and need more housing, hospitals, roads, and soon. These will have to be provided at today's higher cost...
...with freezing cookie dough. After hundreds of different experimental batches, Dottie finally hit upon the right formula, hobbled over on her crutches to Grocer Dale Smith and sold him a boxful. Grocer Smith was soon selling as many boxes as Dottie Ferguson could turn out. She invested in a larger mixer, then in a battery of mixers that crowded her kitchen and basement. But still she could not keep up with the pile of orders...
...Signal Corps announced that it has developed a wrist radio with a receiving range of 40 miles. A wire (hidden under the wearer's sleeve) connects the radio with an amplifier that looks like a hearing aid. The radio parts are minuscule -the mercury battery is not much larger than the point of a pencil, and the whole mechanism weighs 2 ⅝oz. Name of the Army's wrist radio: the Dick Tracy...