Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underground). It would require registration of the Communist Party and all its members, and of Communist-front organizations and their officers. It would bar Communists from Government jobs, make it a crime for them even to "make application" for passports. Organizations declared to be party-line would have to label their mail "Disseminated by -, a Communist organization." A member of a Communist outfit would be subject to imprisonment and fines if the organization refused to register and he remained a member; he could get as much as five years in prison for every day he failed to register...
Green Pills. Last week the De Pree Co. of Holland, Mich, offered a chlorophyll preparation over the counter, without prescription, under the trade name of "Nullo." Each bottle ($1.25) contained 30 Paddy-green tablets (a month's supply). Nullo, the label emphasized, "does not stop perspiration." But, claimed the makers, it "is effective in the control of . . . perspiration odors of the underarms and feet; odors associated with menstruation ; and odors that may be the result of faulty metabolism. Nullo, allowed to dissolve on the tongue, quickly neutralizes localized mouth odors...
...Bounded Snow Crop. With only $35,000 in capital, the three lined up 13 packers of frozen foods and vegetables, were the first to sell frozen orange concentrate on a national scale. Their orange juice supplier: Vacuum Foods Corp., which later produced juice under its own Minute Maid label. Snow Crop's fast move into he frozen-food market paid off: by the end of 1946 it was grossing $3,200,000 year...
Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune sounded so much like the Communist press that the Washington Post lamented that people might soon label it "the prairie edition of Pravda." Cried the Trib: "Mr. Truman's statement on Korea is an illegal declaration of war . . ." But the New York Compass, which has often walked the Communist line, this time jumped off. It blamed the Reds and got a characteristic reward from its former friends: Compass Columnist I. F. Stone was accused of "slimy Titoism...
Except for one answer which suggested that Harvard by its historical, geographical, and economic position ought to cater more to Massachusetts natives, comments on the University admissions policy generally praised it as fair. One answer went so far as to label the Fair Education Practices Act a "vile insult to my own college." Several voiced doubts about the absolute absence of unfair discrimination in the Medical School, however...