Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market, in a year or so, it will cost "something under $2 per Ib." At this price only highly specialized farmers will be able to afford it. If applied to the top three inches of soil at the lowest claimed concentration (.02%), about 200 Ibs. will be needed to treat one acre. Monsanto believes that Krilium will be used first by truck farmers, home gardeners, etc., who can afford to apply it to limited areas. Later, the company hopes, the price will fall to a point where large-scale farmers will be interested...
...roll call of captives was hurried along, it was heavily salted with official U.S. doubts. Pentagon telegrams cautioned that "no assurance as to accuracy can be given at this time." Warned President Harry Truman: "For the sake of the families whose sons are missing in action, everyone should treat this list with skepticism...
...next June, the cold-weather team hopes to be able to tell the Pentagon, once & for all, the best way to treat frostbite, and how best to prevent...
...make machines, and without which defense plants cannot tool up to make jet engines, airframes, tanks or anything else. Yet Wilson failed to realize that machine tools held the key to the whole armament program. I.T. & T.'s William H. Harrison made the original blunder by refusing to treat machine tools any differently from "pots or pans," denying them priorities. Price Boss Mike Di Salle compounded the blunder by refusing to give toolmakers the price relief needed to step up their output. Wilson did not discover either of these errors soon enough. Not until August did he decree price...
...Most radiologists believe it beneath their dignity to treat corns. That, says Dr. Sydney J. Hawley of Seattle, is a mistake: one X-ray treatment will usually remove a corn, and it will not grow back for a year or more...