Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grass Cutter. Well ahead of spring's burgeoning, the United States Rubber Co. announced that "Kem-Kut," its new chemical growth inhibitor (maleic hydrazide) can slow down a fast growing lawn for a whole season. Mixed with water and sprayed on the most aggressive turf, Kem-Kut slows cell division. The grass stays green but grows no more than it does through a normal winter. Largescale application of Kem-Kut requires a power sprayer that few amateur lawn-tenders are likely to own. But, with only a hand spray, a man can slow up the grass around flower beds...
...instance, students no longer eat certain kinds of pies because the sanitation staff found they tended to create gastroenteritis. In '49 a rash of sickness was traced to a contaminated meat cutter. Dining hall employees now get lectures on how to handle food, and a diarrhea epidemic in Andover court was stopped a few years ago when Dr. George Moore found its source in a clogged sewage system...
...divided between white supremacists and potential Communists. He spent most of his career as art outspoken foe of the New Deal, the Fair Deal, labor leaders, foreigners and Negroes, and once blasted an anti-poll-tax bill as an "expression of venomous, ignorant, unreasonable hostility." Died. Victor Macomber Cutter, 71, Massachusetts farm boy, who joined the United Fruit Co. in 1904 as a timekeeper in the Costa Rican jungles, by 1924 had become president of the company (he retired in 1933); of injuries in a fall down a flight of stairs; in Washington...
...Bermuda pilot boat, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Yakutat and a Kindley base crash boat raced out through whitecaps, pulled four survivors (including the steward) from the edge of a circle of burning gasoline 500 yards across; 37 others were drowned or burned to death...
...members were convinced that Hiss was lying. After Chambers had produced the microfilms of State Department documents from his famed pumpkin and the Justice Department was fighting with the committee for possession of this new evidence, Nixon-on his way to Panama-hurried back by plane and Coast Guard cutter...