Word: carbonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Several Army and Navy officers, a few scientists including Radio Engineer Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, a doctor or two, some newshawks, a dentist, the head of Liquid Carbonic Corp. and a handful of his employes stood in a circle last week in the company's one-story brick building in the malodorous gashouse district of Cambridge, Mass. In the middle of the room was a steel tank big enough to hold a pony. It was lined with i.ooo Ib. of frozen carbon dioxide, popularly called "dry ice." The temperature inside was somewhere between...
Tasteless and odorless carbon monoxide crumples the coal miner, turns his body cherry red. From the exhaust pipe of his automobile comes the same deadly gas to fell the careless motorist who lets his engine run in a tight-shut garage. Housewives leave unlit gas stoves turned on and whole families perish. Unskilled operators give surgical patients too much anesthesia. Faulty furnaces kill college boys in their beds. Newborn babies breathe once or twice, then breathe no more. . . . In these ways and in many another Death by Asphyxia comes some 50,000 times a year...
...yearly deaths by asphyxia approximately 35% are caused by carbon monoxide. Many a carbon monoxide victim dies after his breathing has been restored, the poison cleansed from his blood. For three years U. S. Public Health Service and Bureau of Mines researchers have sought, through experiments on cats & dogs, to discover the cause of and remedy for such failures in resuscitation. They have found, reported Dr. Royd Ray Sayer of the U. S. P. H. S., that both carbon monoxide poisoning and lack of oxygen not only stop respiration but also injure brain cells and the central nervous system. Insufficient...
...been away returned to find a policeman barring their door. Sickening as a blow from his nightstick was the news he had to tell. All over the campus telephones were ringing. Students hurried from house to house. Soon all Dartmouth knew that, flowing from the broken furnace pipe, carbon monoxide gas had seeped through the Theta Chi house without sound or smell, brought Death to all nine sleepers...
...soon as companies realize that the film industry is not like the automobile industry, there will be better pictures. The public rapidly is becoming fed up with a succession of films, each a carbon copy of the other...