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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Definition: "Capable of exterminating human life entirely." † About one-fifth of a teaspoonful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Alphabet of Destruction | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...accept into their Government the very Communists who sought to destroy it." Now, said the Governor: "We have only one choice and that is wisely to aid those who stand with us in the world in the hope that they will rise again as bulwarks of the institution of human freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Only One Choice | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...likes to make people's flesh creep, last week did it again. He reminded the U.S. that its top military men were anything but complacent over "absolute weapons."* In the United Nations World, Zacharias wrote of new non-atomic weapons "that could wipe out the last vestige of human, animal and vegetable life." And then he added: "They are not an American monopoly. Several nations are known to have them, to be making them, and to be improving them. Furthermore, unlike the atom bomb, they are of such a nature that smaller nations with limited industrial facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Alphabet of Destruction | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...been recommending mineral oil for constipation and in weight-reducing diets. Because of animal and vegetable fat shortages, it has also been widely used in salad dressings. What worries Dr. Fishbein: recent research seems to prove that a steady diet of mineral oil is none too good for the human organism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case Against Mineral Oil | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...study showed that three teaspoons of mineral oil a day cuts in half the human body's ability to absorb carotene, which is converted to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness, various skin and internal disorders. What's more alarming, fine droplets of mineral oil can go through the intestinal wall and reach the liver and lymph nodes, where, doctors suspect, they may cause dangerous lesions. Autopsies have revealed such droplets in patients' tissues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case Against Mineral Oil | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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