Word: weeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regard to the use of weed killer on cranberries, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Flemming indicated that it caused cancer in rats. It occurred to me that the cranberry growers would have been happier if Mr. Flemming had simply made clear that cranberries should not be fed to rats...
...change, claimed its backers, would let wheat compete with corn as a feed grain, and weed out inefficient wheat producers. But chances are also good that the wheat states' big commercial growers would sow record crops if freed from controls and promised $1.30 for every bushel, thus adding to the bulging surplus...
...Olson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., the big growers' cooperative, thus put it straight to Arthur Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education & Welfare, who threw growers and housewives into a panic the week before with his declaration-based upon mouse tests-that cranberries tainted with the weed killer aminotriazole might cause cancer (TIME, Nov. 23). Said Olson: "You have placed the entire cranberry crop of the U.S. under suspicion, and we are confronted by the situation where we are adjudged guilty and must prove our innocence...
Said Secretary Flemming at a press conference specially called just 17 days before Thanksgiving: two batches of the cranberry crop from Washington and Oregon had been found contaminated from improper use of a toxic weed killer called aminotriazole. The chemical, he said, had been tested on rats and had caused thyroid cancer. And so consumers should avoid buying Washington and Oregon cranberries until a way is found to separate the good berries from the bad. In fact, said Flemming, housewives should be "on the safe side" and not buy any, unless they could be sure that the berries were...
Later, a toxicologist for American Cyanamid, which markets the controversial weed-killer, stated that a person "would have to consume 15,000 pounds of contaminated cranberries a day for many years" to sustain ill effects. Belatedly, Flemming's Department dispatched a hundred chemists to separate the good cranberries from...