Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What Is "Harmless?" Where the gap between day and night temperatures is wide enough, oranges turn orange as they ripen on the trees. But Florida nights average so warm that oranges often remain green even when fully ripe. Since U.S. housewives want orange oranges, the Florida orange industry turns green oranges yellow by exposing them to ethylene gas, then colors them orange with a coal-tar dye called...
...been proved to be harmful in the minute quantities that might enter an orange eater's system. Overruling the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court held that in the coal-tar provisions of the Food. Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938, "harmless" plainly means absolutely harmless, and that therefore Red 32 "is not to be used at all." Unless Congress amends the law, Florida orangemen are going to have to convince housewives that yellow oranges can be just as good as orange oranges...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). The Hollywood Pied Piper's new Story of Robin Hood, filmed in authentic English underbrush with an all-English cast headed by Richard Todd as the harmless Hood. First of a two-part legend...
...Harmless and Responsible...
...several years the University has threatened action, and following last year's Santa Claus stunt and arrest, President James D. Stanley '59 wrote the Deans that henceforth a Lampoon board would guarantee that all amusements would be harmless and responsible. His successors, however, were until recently ignorant of his letter...