A consignment of five grams of radinni. worth 350.000 dollars (about £70.000). packed in 25,000 tiny platinum tubes worth 50 000 dollars, has been received by Bellevue Hospital. New York, to bo used in cancer/ treatment. This hospital now has ten grams of radium, twice as much, it is said° as any other medical institution in the world. A novel " weed-killing train is an important adjunct of one of tngland's railway lines. It was recently put into service to prevent moisture, retained liy weedy growl I) along the rigid of way. from loosennig the ballast. A dry chemical carried in drums is mixed with water on route and spraved through nozzles upon the roadbed while the train is moving. Weeds given (his treatment quickly shrivel tip and die.
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Evening Star, Issue 21219, 28 September 1932, Page 4
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