Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CANNED FOOD PRICES are heading higher. To meet rising costs, packers forecast a 5% wholesale hike for 1956 pack. Retail rise...
...reactor, owned jointly by the Armour foundation and 24 companies whose interests extend from food preserving to watchmaking, will hasten the new knowledge on which U.S. industry is building an Atomic Age technology. In the atomic furnace, physicists will explore the structure of metals, search for new plastics, investigate new ways of refining oil, new uses for rubber. Radioisotopes from the 50,000-watt reactor will be used by industry as tracers to track friction damage in machinery, test new chemical carriers for cancer therapy, hunt new manufacturing techniques in fields ranging from rubber to building materials...
From the test tube have come drugs that helped add eight years to life expectancy in the U.S. (from 62 to 70 at birth) since 1941, boosted population. At the same time, to the discomfiture of Malthusians, new fertilizers, insecticides and other chemicals have helped pile up the greatest food surpluses ever. Man has learned to cruise undersea on nuclear power, fly at supersonic speeds; research has trebled the number of metals used by industry, made diamonds from common carbon (see cut), and conjured up thousands of new products...
...Food sterilized by atomic radiation so that it will keep indefinitely without refrigeration...
Applied research also turns up rich and diversified rewards. Chrysler Corp.'s research in hydraulic pumps for cars resulted in a hospital pump that delivers liquefied natural food directly to a post-operative patient's stomach, eliminating the need for intravenous feeding in many cases. General Motors' development of a sensitive device to test automotive parts yielded an electronic "stethoscope" for doctors...