Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maverick or Richard (Have Gun) Boone. On London's commercial Channel 9 last week, there were more than nine hours of U.S. shows. And the BBC supplied another eight. Caught up in the cultural invasion, armchair wayfarers could head out with Wagon Train or Highway Patrol. With tea they got Annie Oakley, Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels in the south, Midlands, and north, screens flashed with Wild Bill Hickok, Lassie...
Tokyo's 1,090 trolleys and 2,300 commuter-railroad cars blossomed last week with hastily printed posters headlined "Protection from Radiation" and concluding, "Drink tea and rebuild bright future." In between was an explanation of the connection between these seemingly unrelated items. And between the lines was the unconcealed hope of Japan's tea industry that it could capitalize on fears of nuclear war to build future profits...
...movement got its start last year when portly Dr. Teiji Ugai, 63, president of Shizuoka Pharmaceutical College, was worrying over reports that the tea plant avidly takes up strontium, including radioactive strontium 90 (TIME, Oct. 27) and that port of New York authorities had detected radioactivity in Japanese tea. Shizuoka prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, grows more than half Japan's tea, and the industry was already ailing before radiation sickness...
...might be eliminated from the human system if there was enough tannic acid present. It worked in Dr. Ugai's laboratory, where mice stored up 30% less strontium in their bones when they also got tannic acid. Then he found that a standard brew of green or black tea worked like a weak solution of tannic acid...
...tea growers launched their campaign without even consulting Dr. Ugai. Said one merchant: "Favored from ancient times, tea now stands the test of the atomic age as a safeguard against one of the most dreaded byproducts of that age." But one thing was missing: evidence that what works in laboratory mice will work equally well...