Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe anything but facts & figures and sense-data." Maritain found the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man and things. He blamed not science itself for the 20th Century's moral crisis, but two factors bearing on the use to which men put science: 1) peoples' "mythmaking suggestibility," their "natural lust" for facile explanations; and 2) "greed and will to power, and the temptation to which the kind of omnipotence meted out by science . . . gives rise in the human race...
Said he: "The question faced by the world is quite simple: Will men be able to submit the use of science and the power of technique to wisdom...
...instrument of development. Capitalism must shoulder what President Harry Truman called a "bold new program." Specific examples of what capitalist enterprise can do were given by Nelson Rockefeller, president of the International Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described how the updraft caused by the helicopter...
...crude cocaine, and also among its foremost users. Their country has an overabundance of coca leaves, from which the white-crystalline-powdered drug is refined. In the highland valleys of the Peruvian Andes, the green coca plants-stretch out for miles in cultivated fields, like wheat in Kansas. Use of the drug got its start after the Spanish conquest, when Peruvian Indians began chewing coca to offset the hunger and fatigue they suffered under their new masters. Later, miners took to chewing it to last out their long day, andinos to counteract high-altitude sickness. Last year 8,200 tons...
...Manhattan's Dr. Morton Biskind, printed in The American Journal of Digestive Diseases. Deutsch contended that the mysterious ailment called virus X, which rose to epidemic proportions in Los Angeles about two years ago, has the same symptoms as DDT poisoning and may be traced to indiscriminate use of the chemical. X disease, which has attacked herds of cattle in 37 states, also looks suspiciously like DDT poisoning. What's more, Deutsch said, DDT is getting into milk products and foodstuffs in dangerous amounts...