Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Red Cross called for blood donations on an all-out, wartime scale, beginning at once, so that gamma globulin (TIME, Nov. 3) can be processed in readiness for next year's polio epidemics. The goal: 5,000,000 pints ¶Doctors of the Food & Drug Administration, spurred by last summer's scare about Chloromycetin, checked 539 cases of blood disorders, such as aplastic anemia, which might have been caused by drugs. In. 55, they found, Chloromycetin was used alone, and in 143 with other drugs, but in 341 cases other drugs or no drugs had been used...
...years with Santayana, and the author of half a dozen books ranging from A Million Years of Human Progress to What Great Men Think of Religion (he is an atheist). But among businessmen of Yakima, Cardiff is best known for his relentless war with inspectors of the federal Food & Drug Administration. In a series of battles, boasts Cardiff, "I've licked 'em every time...
Last week, in winning his greatest battle, Apple Seller Cardiff upset the Food & Drug Administration's entire applecart. In a case that Cardiff has been fighting for nearly three years, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal inspectors have no right to inspect a food plant without the owner's permission. In effect, the decision, based on "vague" language in the law, wiped away most of the evidence-gathering power of the Food & Drug Administration...
...over a rigid Agriculture Department ruling on how much arsenic spray could be left on apples and pears put on sale. Cardiff, arguing for more arsenic, led a five-year fight to get the Agriculture Department to relax the regulation, and finally won. Later, in four separate cases, Food & Drug Administration inspectors seized a shipment of Cardiff apples on the ground that they were contaminated. In each case, Cardiff fought through the courts, and won. One reason for his success was that Ira Cardiff knows as much about the Food & Drug Act as any man alive: he helped prepare...
...Houston publisher and first commander of the WAC, and invited her to sit in on Cabinet meetings because of the "vital importance of her position"-supervising the Social Security program and a clutch of welfare offices including the Public Health Service, the Office of Education and the Food and Drug Administration...