Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press has tended to discount its own validity, and, as a result, the morale of its readers is low. They have been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...
Most of the isotopes have been used as "tracers." Radioactive phosphorus, for instance, has exactly the same chemical properties as ordinary phosphorus. So it can be made into phosphorus compounds and fed to plants or experimental animals. Wherever it goes it betrays its presence by telltale radioactivity. Thus, biologists can use it to measure the amount of phosphorus-containing protein which moves out of the nucleus of a microscopic living cell. Without radiophosphorus, such an experiment would be impossible. Many researchers, hoping to learn how disease germs enter the body and how they do their damage, are tagging living bacteria...
...Robert V. Seliger, Johns Hopkins' famed alcoholism specialist, first quieted the patient with sedatives, then fed into his veins two "quarts of a mixed solution of sugar, salt, vitamin B-1 and insulin. The hallucinations became milder; the patient went through the motions of tending bar, smoking (flicking imaginary ashes into an imaginary tray), and after a time began to repair an imaginary watch...
Hungry Steel. After their hungry cry for another rate boost (TIME, July 14), some of the railroads turned out to be pretty well fed. Union Pacific's six months' earnings, at $20,601,834, were 51% above the 1946 period; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway's, $20,609,310, were up 57%. Some 25 roads did much better than last year-a poor year-including the New York Central Railroad Co., which made $2,053,711 v. a 1946 loss...
...radio venture, the demand for his autograph has increased so greatly that Trainer Weatherwax has decided to have the dog fitted with an inked paw-pad bearing his picture. Consumption of Red Heart Dog Food has also increased, at least in the Weatherwax household. Once Weatherwax even fed some Red Heart sandwiches to unsuspecting guests...