Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Public Health Service found that milk in New Orleans registered 530 micromicrocuries* of radioactive iodine per liter. In other Southern cities the level was nearly as high...
...radioactive air masses from the Russian Arctic test site rose into an air current that carried it from eastern Canada down the U.S. East Coast to Florida. Then it veered westward, along the Gulf Coast, dropping radioactivity that coated local pastures and showed up in the milk of grazing cows. Wandering clouds of tropospheric fallout from the Soviet tests have been detected over most of the Northern Hemisphere. They all crossed Soviet territory, many of them veering south across thickly populated parts of Russia while still in the first flush of their radioactivity...
Whether the local radiation levels are dangerous is a matter of dispute. The U.S. Public Health Service suggests vaguely that 10 to 100 micromicrocuries of iodine 131 in milk is the "guidance" amount that small children should not exceed per day over a full year. Although the figures for milk in many Southern cities have been far above the top daily limit, the PHS is not alarmed because iodine 131 has a short half life* of eight days. When the Russians finish their current test series, most of the accumulated iodine 131-whether in milk, in air or on grass...
...Cool the burns fast by removing clothing if it is loose, and immersing them in cold water (tap water, ice water, milk, soft drinks, or whatever is handy). For large burns, avoid excess chilling by using tap water without...
...Yemenite wedding ceremony, in which the color of spectacle-cloth-of-gold gowns, jeweled headdresses, a pinpricked panoply of tiny candles-is matched with the mystery of ancient ritual. The Broadwayward book relies heavily on soap operatics for the matrons' matinee trade, but much of the time Milk and Honey flows exuberantly and lyrically out of its native soil...