Word: benzol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poisons, monotony and fatigue. . . . Married women are a particular problem. The stillbirth percentage is greater among factory workers. Infant mortality is higher. Abortions are higher." His recommendation to prevent all this: pre-employment physical examinations, followed by frequent periodic checkups, prohibiting females in employments involving exposure to lead and benzol; proper seating, with back rests; prohibiting women from working three months prior to and after childbirth; prohibiting night work; clean lunch rooms; quiet rest rooms; an educational program emphasizing female health; adequate nursing and medical care, and short rest periods during the morning and afternoon hours...
...boomed the Koppers business because it cut off the German supply of such explosive coal derivatives as ammonia, benzol, toluol. For three years Koppers' Rust built a coke plant every 60 days, a benzol-toluol plant every six weeks. Since these plants needed structural steel, Mr. Rust drew in the Pittsburgh steel team of Charles Donnell Marshall and Howard Hale McClintic. Today the parent Koppers Co. controls at least $400,000,000 worth of properties, has only 16 stockholders. The Mellons own a clear 50% of Koppers' stock, Mr. Marshall 16%, Mr. McClintic 9%, the Rust family about...
...angina pectoris, in electric shock, in chloroform or benzol poisoning, a certain toxic factor is developed in the blood which upsets the heart's regular timing. From two first stages of disorganization the heart can ordinarily recover. But if something mental or physical excites the accelerator nerve or stimulates the adrenals to pour an excess of adrenalin into the blood, the ventricles begin to fibrillate. And shortly the heart tires and stops...
...much as1,000,000 per cu. mm. Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered for a time slow up the excess white cell production. Transfusion of normal blood has little effect, at least in leukemic children...
...absolution and surgeons operated in the middle of the streets. One woman was dug from a rock pile that had been a house. "There were eight of us, drinking coffee," said she, and died. Others wandered about all night, calling. That night villagers miles away could still see the benzol plant flaming like a candle to the dead...