Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rays from radioactive sources. A dental X ray may give .005 r to the gonads, and general fluoroscopic examinations may give 2 r or more. The committee suggests that doctors and dentists should go easy with X rays. Patients who read the committee's report (especially those who intend to have more children) will surely think twice before they permit prolonged X-ray treatment for any ailment...
...embargo, sell it to China as well. Using the device, Japan sold 15,000 tons of galvanized steel to China in return for coking coal, while Britain shipped 4,000 tons of steel plus at least 60 tractors. Last week's action was merely notification that U.S. allies intend to widen the use of exceptions to include many items-chemicals, farm machinery, nonferrous metals, etc. Said a U.S. State Department spokesman: "There will be an increasing use of exceptions, and we "will be kidding ourselves if we don't face that probability...
...United Nations' dike against trade with Communist China has grown steadily weaker. Last week the cracks became a chasm. In London the British Foreign Office announced that it would allow all colonial governments to resume shipments of rubber to Red China, and added privately that "we intend to resume trade on as many fronts as possible without allowing China strategic materials it cannot get from Russia." In short order, Malaya issued permission for each concern to sell up to 2,000 tons to the Chinese Communists; Indonesia announced that it would sell not only rubber but supplies...
...take up with its allies later this month when Canada's External Affairs Minister Lester Pearson comes to Washington for talks with Dulles. For one thing, State does not want this new association with European powers to imply that the U.S. is endorsing colonialism. Nor does the U.S. intend to give up its freedom of action in non-NATO areas, e.g., Formosa Strait. Nonetheless, the drafted proposals are a challenge and an appeal to the nations of Western Europe to draw closer together, with U.S. support...
...Revelle has not reached the stage of warning against this catastrophe, but he and other geophysicists intend to keep watching and recording. During the International Geophysical Year (1957-58), teams of scientists will take inventory of the earth's CO2 and observe how it shifts between air and sea. They will try to find out whether the CO2 blanket has been growing thicker, and what the effect has been. When all their data have been studied, they may be able to predict whether man's factory chimneys and auto exhausts will eventually cause salt water to flow...