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Then U.S. officers discovered that the epidemic had been caused by arsenic which had been smeared on the prisoners' bread rations with a brush. Six arsenic bottles (two of them empty) were found under the floor of the local bakery. First theory was that the poison was being used to exterminate cockroaches. But further investigation showed that the unknown poisoner was not after ordinary vermin. His aim, announced U.S. counterintelligence, was to kill the camp's inmates-some...
Detach my blue brain. Give me drinking water. Look out for the 'mountains. Think of arsenic. Change the yellow ink. Remember last year. Remember the heat. We spit in the air and the nightingales spit...
...kill bees if they are confined in cages which contain plants sprayed with DDT. But that is no news to beekeepers, who have always had trouble with arsenic sprays. Dr. Wigglesworth steps delicately around the whole bee problem with an observation: ". . . beekeepers are a vociferous race. Like the bees they care for, their more lovable qualities may become obscure when they are roused-and they do not take kindly...
...British development of BAL, successful antidote for arsenic poisoning...
...Having authored the show with the second longest run (to date) in Broadway history, Lindsay & Grouse next produced the show with the fourth longest run: Arsenic and Old Lace. From these two projects alone, each has made roughly a million-with plenty of gold still to be mined. The two men don't like to talk finances, claim that most of their earnings just slip away. When a columnist wrote that Lindsay's money had "gone to his head," Lindsay phoned him, said "Thanks, I've been wondering where it went...