Word: slicer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Margaret O. Slicer West Chatham, Mass...
...area? The disease detectives had to find not a microbe but a man. In an epidemic of food poisoning by salmonella in Sioux City, Iowa, it was not the microbe but its means for spreading infection that had to be tracked down. The culprit was a machine-a meat slicer...
...lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons of coal a minute; then their clawlike arms sweep the coal onto conveyor belts. The most efficient underground mines have "longwall" machines that continuously shear the coal vein, much as a delicatessen slicer cuts salami...
...that each January congressional liberals routinely lop $3.5 billion or so off their requested budget, and the liberals regularly grumble that the military goes on buying weapons as rapidly as it had planned anyway. This year, however, the Defense Department has run up against a far more merciless budget slicer that is really forcing cutbacks in weapons procurement: the savage bite of inflation...
...investigation uncovered the source of an outbreak of intestinal illness in Sioux City, Iowa. After learning that all 250 people affected had eaten at one restaurant, CDC officers continued questioning until they discovered that all had ordered some kind of sliced meat. Further investigation led them to a meat slicer that was contaminated with salmonella, a particularly virulent organism that lives and multiplies in the digestive tract...