Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the sulfa-powders marketed in the U.S. were recently found to be contaminated with assorted bacteria (mostly harmless). Upshot: the U.S. Food & Drug Administration now requires all sulfa-powders to be heat-sterilized and carefully packaged. At least one person has already died of tetanus when unsterile sulfapyradine was used following a pelvic operation. Tetanus germs are among the group which sulfa-drugs do not affect...
Dynamite. One upshot of the whole situation has been startling activity in South American airlines. In Argentina, Italian-financed, eight-year-old Corporación Sud Americana de Servicios Aéreos was suddenly reorganized eight months ago, wound up with a new vice president: Ramón Castillo Jr., son of Argentina's President...
...hour sensation. Only U.S. newsman not caught napping was the Washington Star's tall, rawboned chief editorial writer, John Cline. Mr. Cline sat down to write an editorial about the Army's discovery. "The more I thought," he said, "the more the whole thing smelled." Upshot: the Star assigned veteran Reporter Joseph Fox, who covers the Justice Department, to investigate. Reporter Fox's probe led him to the Virginia farm of one C. Russell Bull, whose wife readily explained one of the markers: a figure 9, formed by gunny sacks in a field, which pointed...
...Upshot of the debate: the Lords agreed (in principle) to add some $500,000,000 a year to Britain's budget for such family allowances. The Government promised to do something about them as soon as a survey could be completed. Lord Chancellor Simon shifted uncomfortably on the woolsack. Plainly, plump, redoubtable William Temple meant to press politically, as well as spiritually, for the sweeping social and religious reforms he proposed last year at the Malvern Conference...
Earl Perkins decided that something must be done. He called in a real-estate agent, asked him to sell or trade the house. Parker called on the same agent, made the same proposition. The agent introduced the Perkinses to the Parkers. Their wives liked each other. Upshot: a swap, home for home, even-Stephen for the duration. Each agreed not to sell or rent his own house for at least a year. They hired the same truck, halved their moving expenses. Perkins pays his $31.44 FHA charge each month, Parker pays $31.59 on his house. Perkins now drives three miles...