Word: chemistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic Weather. In nearly all parts of the world, atomic-bomb tests are blamed for unusual weather. In the U.S., for instance, an article in the Saturday Review by Dr. Irving Bengelsdorf (an organic chemist) blames bomb tests for steering hurricanes toward New England-despite the fact that there were destructive New England hurricanes in 1938 and 1944, before any bomb had been exploded...
...took a lot of education to convince most citizens (including T.R.) that good food could turn to poison. One such educator was a testy Department of Agriculture chemist. Dr. Harvey Washington ("Old Borax") Wiley, who got a volunteer "poison squad" to eat spoiling food, triumphantly proved that it made them miserably sick. In The Jungle, Muckraker Upton Sinclair rubbed the nation's nose in the filth of Chicago packing plants. On June 30, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt rode to the Capitol and ceremoniously signed the first U.S. Food and Drugs Act, to protect the people's stomach from willful...
Peter J. W. Debye, Nobel Prizewinning chemist D.Sc...
...Bengert, 57, became president of Norwich Pharmacal Co., succeeding Melvin C. Eaton, 65, son of a founder, who moved up to board chairman. Born in New Jersey and educated in the Middletown, N.Y. public schools, Bengert graduated from Columbia University in 1922, soon afterward joined Norwich as a research chemist, moved steadily up. Chemist Bengert's hobbies: driving a Thunderbird, working in the Boy Scouts and American Legion...
...process of breeding and feeding beef for profit has bred a lot of romance out of the cattle business. The closer the industry gets to its golden calf, the further it gets from its rootin', tootin' golden past. The cattleman has become a statistician, geneticist, chemist, endoctrinologist, pharmacologist, and market specialist...