Word: said
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said Secretary Flemming at a press conference specially called just 17 days before Thanksgiving: two batches of the cranberry crop from Washington and Oregon had been found contaminated from improper use of a toxic weed killer called aminotriazole. The chemical, he said, had been tested on rats and had caused thyroid cancer. And so consumers should avoid buying Washington and Oregon cranberries until a way is found to separate the good berries from the bad. In fact, said Flemming, housewives should be "on the safe side" and not buy any, unless they could be sure that the berries were...
...Tolerance. "This is a disaster," cried George Olsson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., a cooperative for 1,079 growers who produce 75% of the nation's 62,000-ton cranberry production. Cranberrymen, he said, have used aminotriazole with care-even before the Agriculture Department set a rule requiring that bogs could be sprayed only after harvest, to prevent contamination of berries. (In 1957 Ocean Spray took more than 3,000,000 lbs. of a suspect crop off the market...
...aminotriazole caused cancer in rats, and there was no evidence that it would produce cancer in humans. And anyway, by the standards used on the rats, a human would have to stuff down about 15,000 lbs. of cranberries a day over the years to get the same symptoms. Said Dr. Chester E. Cross, director of the University of Massachusetts Cranberry Station: he would as soon eat a helping of tainted cranberries as smoke a cigarette...
...challenge to the philosophy hitherto basic to NATO's military planning-the concept of an integrated, internationally commanded force in which each member nation would concentrate on the weapons and services that it was particularly well equipped to supply. This concept De Gaulle is openly determined to eradicate. Said he in a little noticed speech to France's Center of Advanced Military Studies fortnight ago: "If France should have to fight a war, then it must be its own war. It must defend itself by itself and in its own fashion . . . Naturally, if the case demands, French defense...
...West. He got his chance when an Italian official brought back word that Khrushchev would be glad to have Gronchi as a guest in the Kremlin. Gronchi was willing, but not all Italians cheered. The Vatican Radio gave pointed prominence to an article in La Civilta Cattolica that said that "the cold war cannot be solved by smiles and handshakes."' Il Quotidiano, the news organ of Catholic Action, declared that "Gronchi's proposed trip is a source of serious concern to all Catholics...