Word: listed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after testing Red 32 on animals and finding it highly poisonous, the federal Health, Education and Welfare Department took it off the list of "certified" colors. Under orders to stop using Red 32 by next March 1, Florida orangemen pleaded that the stuff had not been proved to be harmful in the minute quantities that might enter an orange eater's system. Overruling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court held that in the coal-tar provisions of the Food. Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938, "harmless" plainly means absolutely harmless, and that therefore...
...Madrid-educated lawyer known only as Sadek, who has stumped the region, whipping up the tribesmen with fiery speeches from balcony and rooftop. The chief of the Riffs' "central region'' is 33-year-old Mohammed Salem A'Mezzian, who claims he sent the King a list of 18 demands but never got a reply. Of all his demands, he regards as the most important the return of Abd el Krim. "If the other 17 points are accepted and that one ignored," he warns, "we will...
...list of topics will be announced three days before the 3000-word papers are due, Hoffman noted, in the hope that "students will be forced to write exclusively from information gained in tutorial...
When Freberg gave his satire to Capitol Records-donating his profits to charity -the lower ranks happily waxed it. When the brass heard the record, it was yanked off the release list while Capitol's board of directors threshed over the propriety of such uncommercialism. As Freberg and his carolers...
...they had been for a year, businessmen were stepping up their buying again. One immediate result was a lessening of unemployment. The Labor Department reported that employment picked up in most of the nation's major industrial centers last month. Six areas were removed from the substantial unemployment list (Indianapolis, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Fort Worth, Dayton, Hamilton-Middletown. Ohio, and Columbus, Ga.), leaving 83, lowest since last March...