Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free But Grim. Although layoffs rippled outward to wash some 35,000 workmen out of their jobs in supporting mining and transportation industries, Washington deemed the strike no immediate menace to the economy's health; Administration economists predicted that upsurge would start right in again as soon as the strike was over. Piled up in warehouses were record steel inventories calculated to last two months or so (see BUSINESS). President Eisenhower said that he planned no drastic move to try to end the strike. "I believe." said he, "that we have got to thoroughly test...
...well-heeled, new suburban town of Bellevue, Wash. (pop. 12,500), which lies just across Lake Washington from the skyscrapers of Seattle, George Brain has done a notable job of making democratic education flexible enough to give every youngster a chance at a good education. Taking over as the state's youngest superintendent six years ago, Brain proceeded, on the basis of a comprehensive and deep-delving planning survey, to put together a $45 million system of eleven elementary, three junior high and two senior high schools in a community that was little more than a little-red-schoolhouse...
...will be head of Baltimore's schools. Under Fischer, the Baltimore school system has been raised to top level, and the city canvassed the country for the best man for the succession. Brain, youngest superintendent of a major U.S. school system, has come a long way from Ellensburg, Wash., where he attended Central Washington College and later taught after serving in the Marines as a World War II Japanese-language officer. Before saying yes to Baltimore, he passed up an offer to head Pittsburgh's public school system. Early this year he traveled through Western Europe with...
...some hereditary susceptibility. Sometimes there are easy, if superficial, explanations. The combination of a chemical carcinogen (cancer-causing factor) with physical irritation is plainly villainous. Cancer of the scrotum among London chimney sweeps was described by Percivall Pott in 1775. The disease disappeared when the sweeps were taught to wash themselves clean of the carcinogenic soot. Lung cancer from inhaling chromate-ore dusts and nickel-refining fumes can be prevented by the wearing of masks, coupled with adequate ventilation. Even the cancer-causing tobacco-tar fractions isolated by Sloan-Kettering's Ernest L. Wynder (TIME, April 27) seem most...
...Bremen, fifth in a xoi-year line to bear the name, is Germany's biggest liner and one of the world's most luxurious (airconditioning, nonbruising doorknobs, clothes dryers for wash-and-wear suits). Her owner, North German Lloyd, returning to transatlantic luxury service after 20 years' absence, is a monument to the frugality and enterprise that brought back Germany's decimated merchant marine to its present strength of 2,400 ships...