Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most hush-hush medical research has been pursued in dozens of laboratories in the effort to find a contraceptive pill. Last week, after months of rumors, President John Searle of Chicago drug manufacturers G. D. Searle & Co. guardedly told stockholders that the company "hopes to introduce ... an item this year for a variety of menstrual disorders . . . There has been speculation that the drug may have a use in the field of physiological birth control." But its safety and effectiveness in that field have not been fully tested, are far from certain...
...schedules, apparently prevents ovulation. Since no ovum is then released, there is technically no destruction of life. Studies of the hormone's action on this phase of the cycle are far from complete. Even when the drug is released by the FDA, it will be strictly a prescription item; its effects are so tricky and complicated-there may be dangers still unsuspected-that women will be sharply discouraged from trying to doctor themselves with...
...item by item breakdown of the Program, $16 million is slated "to support faculty salaries...
Unique Acceptance. Perhaps most important of all, President Eisenhower asked for the right to veto specific items in appropriations bills instead of having to sign or veto the bills in their entirety. The item veto would be a mortal blow to the congressional pork barrelers-and they are certain to resist it with all their might...
Brains for Survival. Nowhere is the age of electronics more advanced than in the U.S. armed forces, currently the industry's biggest and most demanding customer. The electronics defense budget for the current year is $3 billion, more than any other single item except aircraft. The U.S. military establishment is rapidly becoming one vast electronics system, whose probing antennas and twirling radar reflectors are so sensitive that an upended card table floating off the Florida Keys was recently reported by a rookie radarman as "four unidentified submarines." Virtually every modern weapon depends upon electronics in some...