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...Bathtubful. Are fluorides poisonous? Yes, says Dr. Dublin-in the same way as common salt, oxygen and water, which "can kill you if you get too much of them." But, he adds, "to absorb a lethal amount of fluoridated water would require drinking 50 bathtubfuls at a sitting ... To produce even the mildest symptoms of fluoride poisoning would require that the victim swallow two-and-a-half bathtubfuls . . . during a single...
From Ashes to Atoms. Fastest growing of the top three Farben heirs is Farbwerke Hoechst near Frankfurt, whose moving force is energetic Board Chairman Karl Winnacker, 53, a wartime Farben plant manager. Hoechst's sales-antibiotics, synthetic fibers, cellophane and oxygen-rocketed 17% last year to $355 million. Now the company is taking German industry's first steps toward harnessing the atom. It operates a nuclear research laboratory outside Frankfurt and is building a heavy-water plant (annual capacity: six tons) that will be among Europe's biggest when completed this year. Last week, with Atomic Energy...
...land where highways are likely to be blocked so that trailers can haul their menacing, canvas-shrouded packages to the secret precincts beyond the gates. Tank trucks make shuttle runs between the Titusville railroad sidings and the Cape, carefully hauling highly volatile liquid oxygen for rocket fuel. It is a land of piercing shrieks and thunderous roars, and when the shrieks and the roars combine in one nerve-racking racket, housewives, office workers and schoolchildren rush outdoors to watch another missile on the way, and to compare notes on its performance...
...year-old Benny Hooper Jr. out of a well shaft at Manorville, L.I. (TIME, May 27). One of that gallant band was the Eastport volunteer fire department's physician. Dr. Joseph H. Kris. Called in by police, he stood by for almost 24 hours, supervising the piping of oxygen to the trapped...
...Force School of Aviation Medicine. They collected soil samples from the high slopes of Mt. McKinley, the Painted Desert and the Grand Canyon, where the climate in some respects is almost as tough as on Mars. They put the samples in jars and replaced the oxygen-rich earthly air with dry nitrogen. They lowered the moisture content to below 1% and reduced the pressure to 1.2 Ibs. per square inch to simulate the thin Martian atmosphere...