Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least, are carcinogens (i.e., can cause cancer). The result, says Dr. Ivor Cornman in Cancer Research, is that the U.S. is "submerged in carcinogens, few of which we can recognize." Biologist Cornman, of the Hazleton Laboratories in Falls Church, Va., is not exercised about coal-tar derivatives used in dye-making, some oil products, chromate and uranium ore dusts: their hazards are recognized and it is up to industry (with a prod from government) to see that they are used safely. Neither is he alarmed by chemicals added to food: these are being tested for safety (though in many cases...
...army convoy at Al Auin near the western coast of the Spanish Sahara, even tougher tribesmen were reported taking up arms against Madrid's rule. They were the towering, long-haired R'Guibat tribesmen known as the "blue men" because their robes are colored with an indigo dye that rubs off onto their skin. Rich and, until recently, gunrunning, slave-trafficking nomads who hold a virtual monopoly on camel raising in the western Sahara, they hold colonial borders in warlike contempt...
...small bombs just before "impacting" in the water to let the Navy outfield know where to look, then dangled flags and a flashing beacon above its watery resting place. As a broadcasting station, it popped out antennas, began "beeping" out its location. Then, for good measure, it spewed out dye marker and shark repellent. As intended, the 4-ft. nose cone was shortly recovered, and went on to its just reward as the inanimate star of the President's first missile speech...
...Dye Against Death. Son of a Swiss professor of pedagogy, Daniel Bovet recalls: "We children were guinea pigs for testing father's educational theories. It was wonderful." As a boy. he grew mushrooms in the family cellar, cultivated molds in his mother's fruit jars. In 1929 the famed Pasteur Institute of Paris offered Biologist Bovet a job. By 1932 news reached Paris that Germany's Gerhard Domagk had found that a dye product, prontosil could be used to kill bacteria that cause common infections. Bovet and his colleagues at the Pasteur found that prontosil...
...hair-coloring fad is the biggest-booming (1956 sales: $35 million v. $3,000,000 in 1946) cosmetic lift since the invention of gay deceivers. Across the U.S., 100,000 beauty shops and drug counters are supplying eager heads with a whole spectrum of tints (cosmetologists never say "dye") that sport such come-on names as Golden Apricot, Sparkling Sherry, Fire Silver, Champagne Beige and just plain Black...