Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the Communists apparently felt ready for a preliminary trial of strength with the government. Because it was largely a test, the unionists refrained from violence and sabotage, and the government's use of martial law seemed enough to contain the situation. But U.S. and British experience had shown that as a practical matter soldiers cannot dig coal, and it was hardly likely that the government could keep 500 million barrels of oil a year flowing out of Venezuela without coming to some sort of understanding with labor. Unless the government could find labor leadership good enough...
...Called "Up the Street," the new album will contain Harvard, Sousa, and other popular marches. Cuttings include "Our Director," "Up the Street," "Stars and Stripes Forever," and "Semper Fidelis...
...Department of Agriculture announced that they had discovered something new about plants' "photoperiodism." They irradiated soybeans and other sensitive plants with narrow-wave bands of colored light from a spectroscope. Judging by the plants' responses to different colors, the experimenters decided that plants must contain invisible amounts of a blue pigment which acts as a sort of alarm clock. The scientists do not know exactly what the powerful pigment is, but when it gets the right amount of illumination, it tells the plant to wake up and start the business of flowering...
...Lorillard Co. was told to stop advertising that Old Golds contain less nicotine, tars and resin and are less irritating to the throat than any other leading brand. Said FTC: "It is impossible [for a manufacturer] to maintain in the finished cigarettes, over any considerable period of time, a uniform level of nicotine content...
...American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike), its subsidiary American Cigarette, & Cigar Co. (Pall Mall), and Philip Morris & Co., and might bring cease & desist orders against them. FTC investigators have found, for example, that despite claims of being "easier on the throat," king-size cigarettes (such as Pall Mall) actually contain "more tobacco and therefore more harmful substances" than are found in an ordinary cigarette...