Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stung by recent evidence that there is a definite connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer (TIME, Nov. 30), the tobacco industry organized to nail down the facts. In telling the U.S. public this week (in newspaper ads) of its decision, the Tobacco Industry Research Committee-challenged the conclusiveness of recent findings but said: "We accept an interest in people's health as a basic responsibility, paramount to every other consideration in our business...
...A.F.L. had 7,568 votes to the I.L.A.'s 9,060, with a block of 4,405 challenged ballots (an important point at issue: eligibility of men who had worked part-time on the piers) still to be processed. Obviously startled, the I.L.A. hurriedly set out to nail down a contract from their old friend, the New York Shipping Association, and threatened to strike this week if negotiations were not begun...
...Bronx, six "nuns" in rented habits and their self-styled "bishop" were arrested for rooking the public in door-to-door campaigns on behalf of themselves. A commonplace practice is to inundate the mails with cheap ballpoint pens (the D.A.V. mailed 32 million in one year), punch cards, nail files, copies of the Lord's Prayer and other unrequested items, accompanied by a "remit or return" demand...
Placing the blame for lung cancer directly on smoking, the Elis have devised a "smoker's kit" which they hope will be a satisfactory substitute. The kit includes life-savers to take the place of smoke rings, matches to light friends cigarettes, and a nail file for people who want to smoke and also wish to spare their finger nails...
...slacks belonged to little Eva Spiers, 14-year-old daughter of a Lancashire nail-maker. Five years ago, she had an attack of rheumatic fever. "Her little body was all twisted up," said her mother, Mrs. Ernest Spiers. "There were nights when I thought I would never get her straight...