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...like the original one. Apportioned between the halves of the dividing cells, the duplicated DNA molecules determine whether the new individuals will be men or muskrats, pine trees or pineapples. The hereditary characteristics of the next human generation-of about three billion people-will be controlled by one fifteen-thousandth of a cubic inch...
Kefauver was even more curious about how Carter and American Home Products happened to bid identically-down to a thousandth of a penny-on bulk Government orders for meprobamate. American Home Products Chairman Alvin G. Brush had an explanation. The two firms either had to offer exactly the same prices or wage a price war, and then "I don't know where the price would be now." Asked the Keef: "If you bid under, do you think that Carter would have bid under also?" Answered Brush: "I am sure they would...
...years ago enabled a speck of germanium to do the work of the vacuum tube, but most of the rest of the circuitry was still needed. Last week Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed an entire milliwatt amplifier, circuitry and all, contained in a single block of germanium hardly bigger (one-thousandth of a cubic inch) than the head of a pin. A 5-watt amplifier is about the size of a dime...
Last week Professor Townes was satisfied. He announced that his apparatus could easily have detected an ether effect even if the earth were moving on its orbit at only one-thousandth the speed it actually travels. Relativity, he concluded, is on firm ground...
...government had taken eight weeks to lay its case, with an endless parade of evidence that Rojas in office had acquired cash, cattle, and "one-thousandth of all the vast land area of Colombia." Nothing was forgotten-not even a 1936 army fitness report on Major Rojas: "His business instincts carry him to the point of sordidness. Temperament: teetotaler. Conduct: a ladies...