Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come from Boston city water, the researchers established: that contains enough chlorine to kill them off. And ice made from this water under proper conditions is equally safe. The trouble originates right in the hospitals. Most of them have carafes with narrow necks, so they cannot be properly cleaned without a brush-and not a single bottle brush was found. Most carafes are made of materials that will not stand sterilization by heat, and no hospital specified disinfection as part of the cleaning routine. In one-third of the hospitals the carafes were "cleaned" in the utility room -along with...
Back at the farm, David bundled up in his new outdoor outfit, added a Davy Crockett hat (with tail) and a .410 shotgun, joined his genial grandfather in the fields for a brief try at rabbit hunting. All the rabbits got clean away, without a shot fired...
Modern working conditions are also an important factor. Union strength builds largely on discontent; today's worker, with his high wages and fringe benefits, finds less and less to be discontented about. He works, says A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Kassalow, "in one of these clean, modern, well-run factories [that] do not strike with the same force that hit the young farmer who came up to the dirty tire plants of Akron or the hot, badly ventilated assembly lines of Detroit, 15, 20, 25 years ago." Union leaders realize that they have come a long way since then. Says...
...Dickinson Letts had been mulling over the frustrations of the three-member board of monitors he appointed in January to supervise a Teamster cleanup. Judge Letts found that the Teamsters had been treating the board's "orders of recommendation" purely as "recommendations," had done nothing substantial to clean up. Henceforth, he ruled, the Teamsters would take "orders" from the monitors. One immediate effect of his ruling is to postpone the convention Hoffa had scheduled for March to have himself re-elected president, a move that would have automatically dissolved the board of monitors...
...against Teamster corruption since the Senate committee began its exposures, and, in the light of the "big week" in Miami, it came none too soon. "Now we have a blueprint to get something done," said Monitor Chairman Martin F. O'Donoghue. "We haven't even begun to clean up corruption...