Word: arsenicated
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...tank cars filled with 45,000 gallons of arsenic trichloride stood on a railroad siding in the town of Horse Cave, Ky. (pop. 2,000) last week, slowly dripping one of the deadliest of poisons. Four years ago the oily, yellowish liquid was bought as surplus from the Army's Chemical Corps (which had used it during World War II to make lethal Lewisite gas) by a company which planned to use one of its derivatives in drilling oil wells. Later the company went out of business, leaving the cargo unclaimed...
...when analysed by the ministry, proved to be harmless. But the Brittany doctors had spread the word about Baumol far & wide. A village retailer, afraid to sell any more of the stuff, returned a shipment to the manufacturers. A sample was analysed and found to contain a deadly poison, arsenic acid anhydride...
...remote hamlets rolled their drums to bring out the villagers, then solemnly read them a warning about Baumol. Jacques Cazenave, 52, director of the Daney Laboratory and father of two children, was arrested and charged with manslaughter. His explanation: One of his drug suppliers must have sent him arsenic acid anhydride instead of zinc oxide. But the next question on many lips was: how many babies in the eleven months since the death of François Lejeune had been hurt by the poisoned Baumol? Press estimates put the number of dead at 50, the seriously...
...this, Playwright Finch brings no jot of extenuating talent. His play is as harmless, soporific and old-fashioned as a child's soothing syrup. Its big asset is that grandma is played by that favorite of You Can't Take It With You, Arsenic and Old Lace and Harvey, Josephine Hull. But seldom has so winning an actress engaged in so losing a fight...
...state's agricultural testing station. He soon saw that the future of the apple industry lay in dried fruit, and took over the Yakima Valley's biggest packing plant. His first brush with the Government was over a rigid Agriculture Department ruling on how much arsenic spray could be left on apples and pears put on sale. Cardiff, arguing for more arsenic, led a five-year fight to get the Agriculture Department to relax the regulation, and finally won. Later, in four separate cases, Food & Drug Administration inspectors seized a shipment of Cardiff apples on the ground that...