Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspension was that Colombia had just about succeeded in pricing itself out of the oil business. While Venezuela's tough but sense-making petroleum code fostered a billion-dollar industry, Colombia's confusing, ultra-nationalist oil laws had crippled efforts to develop resources. It often took ten years to get an exploration concession through Colombian courts. After that, the million dollars spent on drilling a new well would be subject to tax whether oil was found or not. Extra-legal riders of one sort or another jacked royalties as high as 25%; the total government take, in taxes...
...Waksman's slow, unspectacular search for new antibiotics still goes on. In the past ten years he and his associates at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University, New Brunswick have examined more than 100,000 cultures of organisms found in the soil of nearby farms...
...wonder drug streptomycin in 1943. Modest Dr. Waksman (rhymes with phlox-man) has a stock answer which makes it sound pretty simple. He merely examined about 10,000 cultures, he explains. Only 1,000 would kill bacteria in preliminary tests; only 100 looked promising in later tests; only ten were isolated and described; one of the ten proved to be streptomycin. It just happened that streptomycin was the first effective drug that doctors had ever found to fight tuberculosis...
Picasso v. Peaches. When the revolutionaries won, they obligingly renewed Rivera's scholarship. In 1911 he sailed for Europe once more, this time for a ten-year stay...
...considers it more important than any of his paintings: "I have always wanted to do architecture, and this could be the beginning of a new architectural tradition in Mexico-part Aztec, part Mayan, and also my own." It is ages removed from the Italian-marble Palace of Fine Arts, ten miles distant...