Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handle the right-wing Herrerista opposition as skillfully as the old man could. Like most Uruguayans he is friendly to the U.S., though last week he expressed reservations about the U.S. hemisphere arms plan. On a trip to Argentina last fortnight he paid his first visit to Perón. He thought he should meet the man, he explained, whose wife was soon going to pay an important visit to Uruguay...
...used at once, before their radioactivity has been frittered away. The Clinton Laboratories pop them into stainless steel and lead containers (weighing up to 1,600 Ibs.) and speed them by truck to the Knoxville airport. Prices vary widely. Carbon 14, one of the big sellers, costs $50 per millicurie* (if made by the old-fashioned cyclotron method, it would cost $1,000,000). In the past year Oak Ridge made 1,092 shipments to 161 U.S. users, none to foreign countries...
Carrying two reels of 3/4 inch high pressure hose, the fog wagon can pump 60 gallons of water per minute through two gun type nozzles. "Turning disks inside the nozzles," White said "atomize the water and create a stream of fog which extends 20 feet." In especially close work the fireman can turn on a protective spray which provides a water shield. A five ton winch which can be used to pull down walls and for hauling cars out of rivers is another feature of the new engine...
Although the engine pumps water from the hydrant it can draw on its reserve tank of 435 gallons if necessary, White said. In either case the pump maintains a pressure of 600 lbs. per square inch at the nozzles...
Double Trouble. Almost three times as many people (150) were killed in crashes of domestic scheduled airlines in the first six months this year, said CAB, as in the first half of 1946. More planes are flying this year, so the death rate per miles flown was not up as much. Yet at 5.8 per 100,000,000 passenger miles, the rate was still more than double last year...