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...little as one-millionth of an ounce of metal can be detected in the oil. The scientists can tell by measuring the oil's radioactivity just how much the ring has worn-and therefore how efficient...
Before the Patriarch left, the President's desk phone rang. On the other end of the line was W. J. Pace, a farmer of Alamance County, N.C. Farmer Pace was calling because he is the proud owner of the one-millionth rural telephone installed by the Bell system since V-J day. He and the President chatted for a short time, and Mr. Truman learned that there are now 2,330,000 rural telephones...
When the metric system was devised by French revolutionists in 1791, its fundamental unit, the meter ("measure" in Greek), was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance between the earth's poles and its equator. Since this distance is hard to determine accurately, it was abandoned, and the standard meter bar put in its place. Most nations have copies of it. Even the stiff-necked British check their "standard foot" against the meter...
Last year Drs. De Robertis & Schmidt turned their electron microscope, which is far sharper-sighted than the ordinary "light microscope," on nerve fibers, the delicate tendrils sent out by nerve cells. They found that the fibers were cables made up of many hollow tubes about one-millionth of an inch in diameter. The discovery gave them an idea. The "neuro-tubules" seemed ideally adapted for conducting submicroscopic objects around the body. Perhaps, thought the doctors, they conducted the polio virus on its missions of paralysis and death...
Cars. The auto industry rolled out its 100-millionth car (the Duryea brothers built their first one in 1893). Because of suppliers' strikes, production last week was down to 102,368 cars and trucks, off 3,548 from the week before...