Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coloring agents, antioxidants, mold inhibitors, bleaches, thickeners, thinners, emulsifiers and moisteners. This week, to take both the hap and the hazard out of the addilives, a new law (signed by President Eisenhower six months ago; becomes effective. Its burden: before processors may add any chemical to food, its safety must be proved to the satisfaction of the Food & Drug Administration...
...farmers in a 55-mile radius. The chicken houses are so thoroughly automated that one farmer can look after two houses, each containing 18,000 chickens. The feeding is entirely automatic: a conveyor belt with cleats dribbles the mash out in front of the chickens. About all the farmer must do is see that no thieves or foxes...
...time when a farmer will buy a packet of fertilized ova, and in one year obtain from his scrub cows a herd of the finest cattle. To obtain the eggs in sufficient numbers, the donor cows would be fed hormones to make them super-ovulate. Formidable cost problems must be faced before the experimental process is commercially possible. Another big obstacle may turn out to be the purebred beef cattle associations. They already object to Prentice's selling a service of semen for $5 (plus a $5 vet's fee for injection). The associations say there...
...There are three things which are real," Indian-Irish Author Aubrey Menen once wrote, "God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third." Urbane Satirist Menen has siphoned laughter out of stuffy pukka sahibs (The Prevalence of Witches') and sacred Hindu myths (The Ramayana). Rarely has his comic touch been lighter or more impolite than in this current spoof on science...
...revolutionary had to put up with the usual political naivete of his British fellow prisoners, who wanted to know about his bombing program: "Why didn't you do in some of the big pots . . . like that old Lady Astor?" There is the usual prison rough stuff where bullies must be identified and overthrown. Behan ("Paddy" to his Borstal pals) was good at both. His worst words are reserved not for the tough screws but for two unpleasant fellow prisoners called James and Dale: "I was no country Paddy from the middle of the Bog of Allen to be frightened...