Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spray Cranberries, Inc., the big growers' cooperative, thus put it straight to Arthur Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, who threw growers and housewives into a panic the week before with his declaration-based upon mouse tests-that cranberries tainted with the weed killer aminotriazole might cause cancer (TIME, Nov. 23). Said Olson: "You have placed the entire cranberry crop of the U.S. under suspicion, and we are confronted by the situation where we are adjudged guilty and must prove our innocence...
...keep on testing samples from cranberry lots. Products found free from taint were to be so labeled (Certified Safe, Examined and Passed), and freed for sale to housewives preparing for Thanksgiving. Obviously, not all of the 70-odd million Ibs. of the holiday batch could be tested in time. Shoppers who could not find certified stocks at their grocers would have to take their chances with untested lots-if indeed the stores saw fit to sell them-or do without...
...Secretary Flemming's Food and Drug Administration was getting ready for another fight of the same sort last week-this time with the $80 million-a-year lipstick industry. FDA chemists charge that 17 different coal-tar dyes used in lipsticks caused either death or illness when fed to rats. The lipstick makers insist nonetheless that women never digest more than an infinitesimal speck of lipstick, and that the FDA's attack is grossly unfair. Probable next step: a public hearing to discuss FDA's ban on the dyes, now scheduled to go into effect...
...came when he commendably tried to find out what had happened to one of his constituents. Pilot Gerald Lester Murphy. Murphy disappeared and was reported murdered after telling how he piloted a plane that carried Basque Scholar Jesus de Galindez to an appointment with death in the Dominican Republic (TIME, April...
...down on a tarpaulin on the desert floor and began breathing pure oxygen. In just five hours, red-haired Jet Pilot Joe Kittinger, father of two children, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross for his historic balloon ascension to 96,000 ft. 2½ years ago (TIME, June 17, 1957), was to jump toward the earth from the fringes of space in the longest parachute leap in history...