Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brighter Smiles. A new toothpaste containing the antibiotic tyrothricin is being test-marketed by Pepsodent. The toothpaste, called Shield, claims to retard tooth decay. Prices: about...
Taking this ponderous instrument to Hanford, they set it in front of one of the great reactors and surrounded it with a massive lead shield to reduce background radiation from cosmic rays, etc. By commandeering all the lead shielding available at Hanford, they got the background count for pairs of flashes down to 2.15 a minute when the reactor was not operating. When the reactor went to work, releasing floods of neutrinos (if they exist), the count went up to 2.5 a minute...
...collection are his West Point greys and tarbucket hat, the field uniform, including the Eisenhower jacket that he wore in France, and an elaborate red wool cloak that signifies that Ike is a corporal in the crack Algerian Spahis of the French army. From Ethiopia came a rhinoceros-hide shield; from Greece, an ancient (800 B.C.) wine flask; and from the District of Columbia, red, white and blue license plate No. 1. Ike himself brought back a bracelet of boar's tusks from his Philippine tour with Douglas Mac-Arthur...
Even among such well-established plans as the nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield, there are shortcomings. Most group policies do not cover dependents over 18. Many do not provide benefits high enough to compensate for the soaring costs of hospitalization, and most do not provide long-term care for such diseases as polio, TB and cancer. Another frequent weakness: if an illness runs longer than a specified time (seldom more than 120 days), benefits stop and the patient has to wait sometimes for months before they start up again. Meanwhile, he has to pay all expenses himself, just when...
True, since 1932 over fifty million Americans have joined either a hospital or surgical insurance plan such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield; a smaller number have enrolled in corporation "group insurance" plans like Harvard's, which include physician's services as well...