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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Flemming's Food and Drug Administration was getting ready for another fight of the same sort last week-this time with the $80 million-a-year lipstick industry. FDA chemists charge that 17 different coal-tar dyes used in lipsticks caused either death or illness when fed to rats. The lipstick makers insist nonetheless that women never digest more than an infinitesimal speck of lipstick, and that the FDA's attack is grossly unfair. Probable next step: a public hearing to discuss FDA's ban on the dyes, now scheduled to go into effect...
Rubber Barons. The biggest development of Amazon riches was the rubber boom, which began when Charles Macintosh started making raincoats in 1823. Vulcanization and later the automobile fed the prosperity; output rose to a peak of 42,286 tons in 1912-at prices that hit $3 a lb. In the jungle, the rubber barons enslaved Indians and immigrants, drove them so hard that 300,000 died; a 230-mile railroad, built to carry rubber from Bolivia, cost 70 lives a mile to build. In Manaus, the rubber tycoons built mansions and watched Pavlova dance in a $10 million opera house...
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With the project separated into 44 main components and thousands of subparts, the consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10% chance of being ready on time, the Navy knew it had to put more money and men behind it or find a different way to do the job. In such cases the Navy could consult the computer to find out which of a score or more shortcuts around the obstacle...
Mixed Methods. Even children were taught to cheat. The probing Congressmen summoned Child Actress Patty (The Miracle Worker) Duke, a Challenge champ. Her manager, John Ross, testified that answers were fed to her by Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein, 36, sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein. In the popular-music category, elfin Patty tied with Child Actor Eddie (The Music Man) Hodges, 12, split $64,000 with him.* Manager Ross admitted that he gave $1,000 of his share to the show's "People-Getter" Irving Harris, pocketed $3,800 of Patty's prize himself as his manager...