Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arms & Legs. X rays of limbs to detect possible fractures, or arthritic deposits in joints, usually require only short exposures. The radiation used is not enough to damage bone marrow, is far enough from the gonads for safety...
...revised as the program's administrators gain more experience. But to Hickey and the others working with him, the important fact is that a start has been made toward halting the loss of brainpower which St. Louis, in common with other, cities, has suffered through failure to detect top talent...
...landing is now cumbersome and complex. Last week Sylvania Electric Products Inc disclosed a new cathode-ray tube that will cut the size of present radar receiving units by about four-fifths. Developed with the Navy, the "wamoscope" (a derivative of wave-modulated oscilloscope) uses a single tube to detect, amplify and display target blips, eliminating a dozen tubes and components, including such standard terns as detectors and amplifiers. All three armed forces are excited about the wammy. Said Dr. Robert Guthrie, Navy radar expert: "This is a very, very neat achievement in design...
...shaved areas of rabbits or guinea pigs to test for irritating effects. The neotoxic age has brought DDT and still more lethal sprays, some of which stay on fruits and vegetables all the way to the dinner table. FDA permits only the minutest residues, has devised tests that will detect less than a billionth of an ounce of pesticide...
Deliberate food adulteration is relatively easy to detect−watering of oysters and butter, injection of as much as a quart of water into fresh-killed turkeys just before freezing. The FDA concedes that there is no such thing as a perfectly clean food. But it is forever inching toward the impossible goal. Up to now, two pellets of rodent excrement in a pint of wheat have been permitted. This week a new and tougher rule went into effect: only one pellet per pint...