Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sidney Farber and a team of assistants have been getting encouraging results with new drugs. One of the first to show promise was nitrogen mustard (a deadly poison developed in World War II for chemical warfare). Newer and better, Dr. Farber believes, are the awkwardly named "folk acid antagonists." These, like ACTH and cortisone, are most often effective against the leukemias...
...Year. He put Scheherazade in the petroleum business and oiled the wheels of chaos. His acid tears dissolved one of the remaining pillars of a once great empire. In his plaintive, singsong voice he gabbled a defiant challenge that sprang out of a hatred and envy almost incomprehensible to the West...
Extracting copper from such low-grade ore is enormously expensive. To open his Nevada mine, "Con" Kelley had to buy a sulphur mine 60 miles away, to get sulphuric acid needed for the concentrating process. Because exploration is even more expensive, Kelley and others are now going through old diggings to get out the high-cost ore that had been bypassed. Anaconda alone is spending $27 million to tap 130 million tons of such ore in its famed Butte, Mont, properties and another $100 million to process low-grade ore in Chile...
...thing that makes a dogbite (or the bites of other animals*) different from an ordinary wound, says Dr. Vinnard, is the possible presence of rabies virus. It was proved eight years ago that rabies virus can be removed from a wound more thoroughly by soap & water than by nitric acid or any other of the cauterizing agents. As for leaving the wound open, this increases the chance of disfigurement...
...dogbite," says Dr. Vinnard. "Many of these doctors seldom or never are confronted with an actual dogbite to treat. It is difficult to imagine a responsible doctor caring for a pretty child and feeling complacent about having the frightened child held down while he converts the wounds into acid burns which will leave permanent, disfiguring scars...