Word: using
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Thanksgiving just weeks away, Arthur Flemming last Monday gave cranberry growers the short end of the wishbone. Experimenting with "aminotriazole," a weed-killing chemical that some Pacific Northwest growers use in their bogs, government chemists had produced cancer in the thyroid gland of a mouse. "Just to be on the safe side," Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, advised America's housewives not to buy any cranberries until extensive testing had been completed...
More is at stake, however, than sauce for the turkey. When aminotriazole was introduced in 1957, the Agriculture Department and Flemming's Pure Foods and Drugs Administration failed to cooperate in their evaluation of the new chemical's safety. With the increasing use of such chemicals in the growth and preparation of foods, more thorough and prompt controls are essential in order to prevent such costly and inexcusable mistakes as the Cranberry Affair...
FIRST TELEPHONE CABLES between continental U.S. and Puerto Rico are being laid under 1,250 miles of ocean, in joint project by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and International Telephone & Telegraph Co., at cost of $17 million. Deepest cable in the world (five miles) will be ready for use in February 1960, replace current radio circuits and allow direct dialing for most calls...
...pilots get their golden opportunities from federal regulations, which limit their flight time to 85 hours each month. Even with flight planning, flight delays and layovers in faraway cities, some pilots spend about half of each month at home. The man who puts it to good use can make an income stretching in the heavy five figures or build an entirely new career. Says one who does: "Some pilots use their spare time to become expert fishermen. Some become low-handicap golfers. I devote my off-duty hours to making money, of which I happen to be very fond...
...from a general distaste for bourgeois respectability and a slight leaning toward the left, very few of the films express any moral or spiritual convictions whatever. Nevertheless, Les Vaguistes have their principles. They hate commercialism. They prefer to make pictures on subjects of their own choice. They would rather use unknown actors. "They speak of cinema," says one critic, "as of a religion.'' So far, it seems to be a religion in which demons figure more prominently than angels, but so long as the new cult of cinema can create a ritual as richly moving as Black Orpheus...