Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burned down a building, stormed a jail and released 13 prisoners. In rapid succession trouble flared in Livingstonia and at Mzim-ba. At first the Nyasa government minimized the outbreaks, but Federal Prime Minister Welensky did not. "We have adequate forces," said he, "and we will not hesitate to use them...
...Salvador could use some capital infusion. The Massachusetts-sized country on the Pacific Coast of Central America still derives 60% of its export income from big coffee plantations owned mostly by a handful of rich old families. The farm wage has not yet topped 60? a day for the illiterate Indian masses, who are trucked to the polls every six years to vote their approval of the planters' latest officer-candidate for President. The head count of 2,400,000 citizens ranks El Salvador as the most crowded nation on the American continents, and population, despite an infant mortality...
...moment of royal amusement. Later, Her Majesty gave a club group a few homey recollections of last fall's U.S. trip. Sample: when the Queen asked to see the launching of a moon rocket she was told that the request posed difficulties because future visitors might use it as a precedent. "Why don't you," suggested Frederika helpfully, "make a rule that only queens and upwards...
Since most food processors have neither the facilities nor the know-how, it will usually be up to the chemical manufacturers themselves to prove the safety of additives. The law covers those already in use, with a time allowance for testers to tackle the backlog, as well as any proposed for future use. The test technique : put the additive in an appropriate food and give it to laboratory animals (150 rats, 21 dogs, at three-dose levels) for their natural lifetime or a minimum of two years. Even if the critters die natural deaths, their bodies will still be dissected...
When Is a Poison? Nobody knows how many of the additives now in use have been fully tested. Best guess: about 150 are tried and true, will cause no problem, e.g., old familiars such as sodium benzoate (preservative in foods and many soft drinks), and other items less recognizable but long widely used-calcium or sodium propionate (mold inhibitor in bread) and butylated hydroxy anisole (antioxidant to keep fats from going rancid). Another 150 are expected to pass the tests, but 100 or more are in a medical no-man's land...