Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carbutamide or tolbutamide tablets may help a vast number of diabetics: persons in middle or late life, usually those of a rather heavy or stocky build, whose disease is relatively mild and stable: 80% of such patients get prompt relief. If the drugs do not work, the patient can be put back on insulin immediately with little or no harm done. A rough-and-ready guide to indicate who may benefit from the new tablets if and when they become available for general prescription use: patients who normally need 40 units of insulin a day or less...
...Producer Todd took his picture on the world's largest film-exactly twice as wide (70 mm.) as the normal Hollywood stock-and has projected it on one of the world's largest indoor screens-a vast concave gullet that opens almost as wide as Cinerama, and possesses much of the same power to suck the spectator out of his seat. Not content with that, Todd flooded this huge surface with a light almost twice as intense as any ever seen onscreen before, and so hot that the film has to be refrigerated as it passes through...
...were up to $6,616,000 from $5,286,000 last year). Kintner also built up his programming with top TV shows (Omnibus, Lawrence Welk, Disneyland, Bishop Sheen), expanded ABC's network (now up to 215 affiliated TV stations). But he failed to match the other networks' vast increase in total radio-TV billings; from 1949 to 1955 ABC's billings rose 73% (to an estimated $76 million a year), NBC's went up 170% (to an estimated $192 million) and CBS's jumped 253% (to an estimated $235 million). Last week...
Thus, as reserves and relative profits decline, say independents, they are steadily losing ground as the nation's primary oil explorers while the U.S. depends increasingly on risky foreign oil. The vast oilfields of the Middle East are likely to be neutralized in an emergency, leaving the U.S. dependent for its supply on a domestic industry that it has let slip behind. What independents want is a much bigger cut in imports than ODM's scheduled 1%, and a price rise large enough to enable them to pour more money into exploration...
...career by winning a Pulitzer Prize (1956) for his biography of Benjamin Latrobe, the U.S.'s first professional architect; of a heart attack; in Beaufort, S.C. Architect Hamlin delivered Wrighteous judgments, called Los Angeles ("very bad Spanish architecture") the ugliest U.S. city, summed up New York: "One vast slum with oases ... for the wealthy...