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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bush cited examples of how food production could be further increased; they ranged from the treatment of cows with penicillin-to prevent cattle disease which costs Europe 5,000,000 tons of milk a year ("and that will feed a lot of babies") -to controlled photosynthesis and improved fertilizing through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: PRODUCTION | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

As Industrialist Charles Allen Thomas (Monsanto Chemical Co.) put it: "Education . . . has gone from training for living to training to make a living." The University of California's Professor Frederic Lilge carried the analysis further into American life: "The common ground on which we may meet for mutual pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: EDUCATION | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

At week's end, the Deutsch articles had prompted health officials to some replies and explanations. The main theme of the experts: there is no cause for alarm. No dangerously contaminated samples of milk have yet been found. Further, said a U.S. Public Health official: "Statements that DDT is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Worse Than Insects? | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Majority Leader Benjamin F. Feinberg of New York's Republican state senate regarded it as "the finest bill I have ever sponsored during a long career [16 years] in the legislature." The bill: an act to purge fellow traveler and Communist teachers from the state public-school system. Other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nobody Here But Us Mice? | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Quality. No matter how purebred the bull used for insemination (natural or artificial), it has always taken a purebred cow to produce a purebred calf. Scrub cows would produce half-breeds of unpredictable value. At Purdue University in 1941, Ray Umbaugh got the idea of carrying artificial insemination a step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mother Was a Thoroughbred | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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