Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany is receiving $1 billion worth of arms from the U.S. as a gift-but the only comments heard are complaints that the arms are obsolete. ¶Though Germany has accumulated $2.3 billion in gold and dollar reserves, though it has an unused budgetary surplus of $1.4 billion gathering dust in banks, Schaffer is asking the U.S. for $2 billion in defense aid, half as an outright gift...
...experiment ended, Krauss breathed more easily: "I still don't think keeping house for a family of four youngsters is particularly difficult. To me, the hardest part of being a mother is boredom. You wash the same dishes every day, fold the same clothes, dust the same bookcases and change the same diapers." A "Krauss hint" for an easier life: mothers in a neighborhood should pool their children so only one mother at a time need watch them. Another: tots should be parked in bigger backyard playpens and not be permitted to interrupt chores even when they start...
...bomb, declared that "The effects of an atomic war fought with greatly perfected weapons. . . .will endanger the survival of man." Last summer two groups of Nobel Prize-winning scientists condemned continued H-bomb tests; the one headed by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell noted the dangers of radioactive dust clouds and "slow torture of disease and disintegration" in future generations...
...Barns and silos can be unhealthy places for farmers. Reports presented to the Wisconsin Trudeau Society indicate two diseases-"farmer's lung" and "silo filler's disease"-can have a crippling effect on farm workers. Farmer's lung is a reaction to grain dust, producing chills, nausea and shortness of breath. It has forced a number of Wisconsin farmers to give up farming. Silo filler's disease is potentially more dangerous. Caused by exposure to nitrogen dioxide from fresh silage, the ailment has killed several farm hands in the Wisconsin-Minnesota area...
...makes him as untouchable as an ex-jailbird. His old boss refuses to hire him back. Everywhere he meets "the look" which translates "can't take the risk." Then a chemical firm decides to take the risk and hires him. Dick discovers a new process for making nitric dust and seems to be usefully rehabilitated until Author Wagner's boobytrapped plot explodes under...