Word: killers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Adam, agricultural thinkers have longed for a magic wand to make weeds disappear. The trouble is that weeds and crop plants are much alike; one farmer's weed may be another's crop. Any wholesale killer is apt to wipe out both together...
Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced something promising: a synthetic weed killer, isopropyl-N-phenyl carbamate (IPC), which does away with at least one kind of grass without hurting certain broad-leaved crops such as sugar beets and spinach...
...best news was a sharp drop in T.B. deaths. In the first five months of 1947, the T.B. death rate among industrial insurance policyholders fell to 34.9 per 100,000-11% below the same period last year and the lowest mortality on record. T.B., once the No. 1 killer, is now No. 7. But the disease is still one of the nation's costliest ($100,000,000 a year for treatment alone), the most widespread (500,000 active cases), and the No. 1 killer in the age group...
...James Mason in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer (TIME, March...
Heart specialists in Atlantic City reported progress against heart disease, the No. 1 killer...