Word: ores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chemical carcinogen (cancer-causing factor) with physical irritation is plainly villainous. Cancer of the scrotum among London chimney sweeps was described by Percivall Pott in 1775. The disease disappeared when the sweeps were taught to wash themselves clean of the carcinogenic soot. Lung cancer from inhaling chromate-ore dusts and nickel-refining fumes can be prevented by the wearing of masks, coupled with adequate ventilation. Even the cancer-causing tobacco-tar fractions isolated by Sloan-Kettering's Ernest L. Wynder (TIME, April 27) seem most potent when their powers are reinforced by irritation or by another chemical-perhaps from...
...companies have not confined themselves to the more spectacular improvements. They have adopted automation widely in their mills, can now get a steel ingot of any desired size and quality simply by inserting an IBM card in a machine. Republic Steel is reducing iron ore directly into steel through the new "RN" process, which eliminates the blast furnace and reduces open-hearth time by almost...
Portland, Ore., Portland State College Auditorium: a dramatization of James Thurber's and E. B. White's Is Sex Necessary...
...Pains of Success. In some respects, success has proved more unsettling than growing pains. Triumphant in its drive for wages, the Guild today is a crusader lacking a crusade. Membership tends to be listless: last year the Portland (Ore.) local lowered its attendance quorum to 10% to get legislation out of indefinite hock. In the last twelve years the Guild has added only 6,560 new members, has made little or no effort to plaster the gaping holes in its ranks, e.g., such traditional holdouts as the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal, the Detroit News...
...would not last forever. Sure enough, he soon began feuding with Richard Neuberger. In 1957 Neuberger voted for a civil rights bill that Morse had dismissed as meaningless. Later, Neuberger committed the sin of sponsoring a trivial bill to turn over some public lands to the town of Roseburg, Ore.-without consulting Wayne Morse. That did it. Morse killed the bill, which required unanimous Senate consent. There followed a truly remarkable exchange of letters, begun by Neuberger in an attempt at reconciliation and answered by Morse in these words: "You have a lot of guts to write me ... The cowardly...