Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surplus wheat, corn, cotton, cheese, etc., in federal storage adds up to such fantastic bulk that it costs nearly $1 billion a year just to store the stuff while it slowly deteriorates. And the costs threaten to climb higher as farm output keeps rising. Last week the Agriculture Department reported that, though planted acreage was the smallest since 1918, the U.S.'s total 1958 crop output topped by a startling 11% the previous record highs of 1948, 1956 and 1957. For wheat and corn, already in generous oversupply, farmers set new yield-per-acre records...
...after testing Red 32 on animals and finding it highly poisonous, the federal Health, Education and Welfare Department took it off the list of "certified" colors. Under orders to stop using Red 32 by next March 1, Florida orangemen pleaded that the stuff had not been proved to be harmful in the minute quantities that might enter an orange eater's system. Overruling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court held that in the coal-tar provisions of the Food. Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938, "harmless" plainly means absolutely harmless, and that therefore...
...Helena, Mont., when police picked up a 15-year-old boy for auto theft, the lad said: "I'm not a juvenile delinquent. I don't take hub caps and that kind of stuff. I just steal cars...
...taking this botany course, you know. You wouldn't think that would do you much good, but my advisor says that it helps a lot with your own children or if you're a Den Mother or something. You can tell them all the various flowers and trees and stuff when you're out on a walk...
...have taken me as their favorite aim because my political action up to May last proved a stumbling block to their policy of surrender in North Africa. I feel it is a pity that an American magazine should think it fit to feed its readers that sort of unwholesome stuff. What, may I ask, would America and indeed the whole free world gain if Algeria fell into the hands of anti-Western fanatics...