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...Count and sort merchandise, match colors and finishes, gauge size and thickness of materials to a millionth of an inch...
...that live in the soil (TIME, April 15, 1940). A product of chemical warfare between germs, the brew, called gramicidin, overcomes certain streptococci, staphylococci, pneumococci. In tests on animals and humans it is from 1,000 to 100,000 times as strong as sulfanilamide in healing local infections. One-millionth of a teaspoonful, as much as a drop of mist, is enough to protect a mouse from 10,000 fatal doses of pneumococci...
...Observatory's yard, an amateur, Carl Joseph Redland, in daylight hours a barber in the University Barber Shop, displayed a 12 1/2-inch reflecting telescope which he had made entirely by hand, even to iron-cast mountings, and the mirrow which is ground to a focal test accuracy of a millionth of an inch...
...Philadelphia, train-building Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. turned out its millionth aerial bomb. > In Detroit, where Ford and General Motors are getting ready to join Chrysler in producing tanks, the national production rate (now about 25 a day) is expected to reach 100 a day by spring...
...biotin (recognized 40 years ago). Dr. du Vigneaud, who analyzed its structure, said that biotin is extremely powerful, very difficult to make. Only a few grams have been synthesized-at a cost that would come to $63,800,000 a pound. In an early experiment one and one-half millionth of a gram was obtained from 40,000 Ib. of egg yolks. A primitive protein related to urea, biotin occurs in all living cells and is best known as the antagonist of another protein called avidin, which occurs in raw egg white. One of the biggest problems in biochemistry today...