Word: journalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peoria Journal, quoting a telegram from Dr. Gallup ("This is the kind of a close election that happens once in a generation"), retorted: ". . . The Gallup poll, had it been properly evaluated, should have told us it was going to be such an election." It canceled its contract to run the Gallup poll; so did the Nashville Tennessean, the St. Louis Globe Democrat and others...
...trade name: Agene). It is now used in 80% of U.S. white flour. Sir Edward Mellanby of Britain's Medical Research Council fed a concentrated diet of highly Agenized bread to dogs he was using in an experiment on nutrition, published the frightening results in the British Medical Journal two years ago. The flour had caused "running fits"; most of the dogs that did not recover in 30 minutes died...
...knows to what extent cigarettes irritate the throat. But one thing is certain: cigarette advertising irritates the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Last week* the Journal complained that advertising is leaning heavily on references to the medical profession, with more & more emphasis on throat irritation. Huffed the Journal: "It would be difficult indeed to differentiate between the irritation caused by the smoking of cigarettes and that caused by various bacteria, chemicals or heat." If the cigarette companies do not mend their talk, it hinted darkly, the Government might crack down...
Explained the Journal's editor, Dr. Morris Fishbein, a nonsmoker: "We have noticed an increasing trend to make health claims in cigarette ads, and we think this practice is unfair and unwise. The A.M.A. believes in self-regulation by industry, if possible. By printing this editorial, the A.M.A. is making an attempt to encourage industry to look into this situation itself...