Word: fungus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plastic-Coated Plywood. Crown Zellerbach Corp. of San Francisco has developed a weather-resistant plastic sheet that can be heat-bonded to plywood and painted. The fungus-resistant plastic, called CreZon, will be sold in rolls to plywood manufacturers, is expected to make plywood a practical exterior building material under all conditions. It will add slightly to the cost of untreated, top-grade plywood...
...Tornadoes may spread a rare disease, reported Meteorologist Nicholas Manos of the U.S. Public Health Service. Amid the dust they can pick up and spread is the fungus that causes histoplasmosis, a TB-like disease of the lungs, marked also by swelling of the liver and spleen...
...principle of envy. If the new long form for computing taxes is even more complex than the old, it should not be blamed upon bureaucratic obscurantism; it rises from the enormous pressure from taxpayer groups to correct particular inequities. Hard cases make bad law. Year by year the fungus of hard cases (working mother, annuitants, double-taxed dividend recipients) encrusts the incoming tax and leads the Government against its will deeper and deeper into the private lives of its citizens...
...China as a French army chaplain, his religious certainties begin to waver. Riding through the crushing heat of the jungle to a front-line outpost, he passes a ruined pagoda, and is horrified by his sudden vision of his own God "dying in the grasp of the foul, green fungus, speckled with the disease of decay." At the front Colonel Lejeune, a magnificent soldier, tells him with cold insolence that he would have preferred reinforcements to a priest. The French are corroded by defeatism, many of the soldiers are themselves Communists, the colonial troops are unreliable. In this atmosphere, Chaplain...
...volt Van de Graaff nuclear accelerator. Its engineers developed an infra-red drying process for the South's textile industry, and its botanists have helped lead the fight against such tobacco plant diseases as blue mold and Granville wilt. Duke scientists established a worldwide registry for fungus diseases, successfully used the rice diet for high blood pressure, worked on every type of research from new techniques in plastic surgery to a vaccine for equine encephalitis...