Word: astin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Astin, chief of the Bureau of Standards, because, he said, the bureau had not been "sufficiently objective" when it tested AD-X2 and pronounced it worthless. The scientific furor which followed caused Weeks to reinstate Astin temporarily (TIME, April 27), and the Senate Small Business Committee to announce it would hold a full investigation...
...Astin, an eminent physicist, took the stand and said that the "trace elements" were just impurities in the salts. But when Astin defended the bureau's findings on AD-X2, Committee Chairman Edward Thye, Minnesota's other Senator, pointed to a stack of orders for the battery dope. "That means more to me" he said firmly, "than the technical talk of a bunch of chemists ... If a good, hard-fisted businessman has used the product . . . and is fool enough to come up and place orders month after month, what is the matter with him? Or otherwise, what...
...General Foods Corp. were satisfied AD-X2 customers. Engineers from industry, mechanics from the Army and Navy, battery salesmen, all praised the additive in testimony before the committee. But no one could swear that AD-X2 had really revived their batteries. "Suppose you have a cold," suggested Dr. Astin, "and you take some aspirin, and you are better the same day. Did the aspirin do it, or would you have been better anyway...
...After the storm of protest when he fired Dr. Allen V. Astin as head of the National Bureau of Standards, Commerce Secretary Weeks decided...
...Astin to stay on for a while...