Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tobacco's dangers was not established until the mid-1950s, the jury agreed that the American Tobacco Co. could not have known during most of Green's smoking years that cigarettes can cause cancer. Later, after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Florida law subjects any product sold for public consumption to an "implied warranty" that it is not harmful, the Federal Court of Appeals ordered a retrial of the Green case...
...Miami Federal District Court last month, Dr. Hastings had hopes of winning the first damage verdict in the history of the tobacco-cancer controversy. His hopes began to fade when Judge Emett C. Choate started his charge to the jury. Implied warranty, explained the judge, only meant that the product must be "reasonably fit and safe for the ordinary purpose for which it was sold." The issue, he continued, was not whether Green died of cigarette-induced cancer; another jury had decided that. This jury was simply to determine whether "a large segment, a responsible segment, a significant number...
...homespun counsel smacks of medicine's horse-and &buggy days, this is only because Brady himself is a product of that departed time. After graduating from the University of Buffalo medical school in 1901, he set up a practice and in 1914 began writing a column for the Elmira N.Y. Star Gazette. So far as Brady knows he was then the only M.D in newspaper practice...
Nearly a sixth of the new houses being built this year in the U.S. are mobile homes, the product of what the 4,000,000 Americans who live in them affectionately call the "wheel estate" industry. Busily shedding their old image as cramped trailers, mobile homes are moving in rapidly on the market for low-priced housing. On top of gains averaging 25% in 1962 and 1963, the production of such homes has spurted 23% this year. Last week the Mobile Homes Manufacturers' Association announced that the industry built 159,250 units through October-a record equal...
...editors so that money could be asked for in the future. He coached friendly critics, and was shameless in calling attention to the notices they produced. An unfriendly and unjust reading of his correspondence could have it that Frost spent the first two-thirds of his life hawking his product and the last third complacently enjoying the proceeds...