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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complacent, the War Office urged all householders to look to their larders again. For the first time, the War Office arranged for the sale of a $2 package containing a minimum one-person, two-month ration of imported products (two kilos of rice, two of sugar, and one liter of oil). Did the War Office fear a war? Not at all, said a spokesman-just being vigilant and prudent in order to stay calm...
...Evans selection ranges from 1/4 liter to 4 liters. Antique blue and cream ceramic mugs are featured in all the varied shapes German artists loved to create. Their line also includes carefully hand-painted mugs...
...Evans selection ranges from 1/4 liter to 4 liters. Antique blue and cream ceramic mugs are featured in all the varied shapes German artists loved to create. Their line also includes carefully hand-painted mugs...
Plutonium is different. When it gets into the human body, it accumulates in the bones and spleen and stays there, gradually killing the tissue cells around it. A mere trace is poisonous. Water containing more than one millimicrogram of plutonium per liter (one part in one trillion) is dangerous. Isolating it does no good: plutonium loses only one-half of its activity in 25,000 years...