Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medical and hospital insurance, optional for the individual, will be handled through the Blue Cross-Blue Shield organization, which now has a unit at Harvard...
...Each unit is one micromicrocurie (millionth of a millionth of a curie) or radioactivity owing to strontium 90 per gram of calcium...
PILOTLESS LANDING systems are in sight for nation's commercial and military aircraft. New robot system developed by Bell Aircraft Corp. electronically "locks in" plane's controls in the air, uses radio-radar-computer ground unit to ease in craft for three-point landing. Developed for Navy, system has gone through 1,200 successful test landings and Bell says it will make possible entirely automatic landings in any weather...
...each of its past three wars, the U.S. has paid heavily for lack of a sizable domestic tungsten industry. Each time it has been gouged by foreign producers for the vital metal needed to toughen high-grade steels. After the Korean war, when world prices per standard 20-lb. unit leaped from $18 to $90, the Government finally began 1) stockpiling tungsten for defense and 2) fostering a domestic industry with a $30 million annual subsidy to buy U.S. tungsten at $63 per unit, about twice the world market price. Last week the tungsten subsidy was blasted from an unexpected...
Master Leigh Hoadley said that the program would try "to express the various kinds of things the House can do as a unit." In future years he hopes to use the Ford Grant money to pay the expenses of well-known people who will live in the House for a week...