Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...1950s, Western Europe and Japan, their economies rebuilt with U.S. help, were briskly competing with the U.S. in foreign markets, even in the U.S. home market. By last year the U.S.'s international transactions were drastically out of balance: the U.S. ran $3.4 billion in the red in its overall international payments. Gold flowed overseas so briskly that the U.S. gold reserve shrank by $2.3 billion, a thumping...
...week's end, apprehensive over the uproar and still reluctant to give up his salary and fringe benefits for the $19,000 ARPA salary, Critchfield called McElroy from San Diego, resigned before even taking up Government duties. The public controversy, he said, "has most certainly impaired my ability to serve...
...England Missionary John Eliot in 1647, "are Strawberries sweet and Cranberries sowre?" The reason in those days was that cranberries needed sugar. But progress took care of that, and the cranberry has since nourished into a $45 million-a-year business, graced Thanksgiving tables in sauces and jellies, and even-when its juice is mixed with gin-in a concoction called swampfire. But mixed with Arthur S. (for Sherwood) Flemming, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the cranberry last week turned out to be something more powerful: pandemonium...
...Tolerance. "This is a disaster," cried George Olsson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., a cooperative for 1,079 growers who produce 75% of the nation's 62,000-ton cranberry production. Cranberrymen, he said, have used aminotriazole with care-even before the Agriculture Department set a rule requiring that bogs could be sprayed only after harvest, to prevent contamination of berries. (In 1957 Ocean Spray took more than 3,000,000 lbs. of a suspect crop off the market...
Secretary Flemming had acted on the strength of a Food and Drug Administration (part of his HEW department) ruling that allows no tolerance of aminotriazole. Yet even the experts proved to be divided on whether the feeding of aminotriazole caused cancer in rats, and there was no evidence that it would produce cancer in humans. And anyway, by the standards used on the rats, a human would have to stuff down about 15,000 lbs. of cranberries a day over the years to get the same symptoms. Said Dr. Chester E. Cross, director of the University of Massachusetts Cranberry Station...