Word: arsenicals
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...poultrymen, with Food and Drug Administration approval, fortify chicken feed with antimony or arsenic compounds or estrogen hormones to stimulate growth and make their birds fatten faster...
That's when the great chicken war began. The Dutch accused the U.S. of dumping chickens in Europe at prices below cost of production. In Bavaria and Westphalia, protectionist German farmers' associations stormed that U.S. chickens are artificially fattened with arsenic and should be banned. The French government did ban U.S. chickens, using the excuse that they are fattened with estrogen. With typical Gallic concern, Frenchmen hinted that such hormones could have catastrophic effects on male virility...
Shortly after war's end, he met Visconti and Fellini at Rome's University Theater Center, learned his craft on its stage in everything from Attic tragedy to Arsenic and Old Lace. His deaf mother and blind father would come to the theater, the one to see, the other to hear him. He made 50 films before La Dolce Vita, co-starring in several early ones with another beginner-Sophia Loren. He has high regard for her and she for him. She gets about $1,000,000 for a picture, and he gets around...
Died. Amy E. Archer-Gilligan, 93, seraphic Yankee poisoner who made a profession of arsenic and old lace from 1907 to 1916 at her tiny Windsor, Conn., old folks' home, where more than 20 paying guests-as well as her two husbands-died under suspicious circumstances, who stood trial and was found guilty of murder in one specific instance, but whose sentence was commuted from hanging to life imprisonment in 1919; in Connecticut Valley Hospital, Middletown, to which she was committed in 1924 as insane...
...Died. Arsenic H. Lacson, 49, maverick mayor of Manila (pop. 1,200,000) since 1951, a fiery reformer who became during three popularly elected terms what Philippine President Macapagal recently called a "national sentinel of public morality"; of a stroke; in Manila. Peppery Mayor Lacson-a former boxer, guerrilla fighter, lawyer, political-science professor, Congressman and newspaper columnist-cleaned up his tatterdemalion metropolis and became an acerbic presidential critic who crushed his Nacionalista Party mate, ex-President Carlos Garcia, and then started sniping at Liberal President Macapagal, whom he helped to power...