Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your admirable review of political corruption in the States you touched upon the activities of the shoe-polish interests in Louisiana, their ardor in drilling new wells for the purpose of making carbon black, in turn to be used in the manufacture of shoe-polish "and other products...
Louisiana has been bubbling lately with gas, natural and political. Permits have been issued to big manufacturers of carbon black to erect plants in the state's rich gasfields. At such plants, millions of cubic feet of natural Louisiana gas have been burned to make shoepolish and other products. Louisianians believe this process is wasteful and, anyway, they want Louisiana gas for Louisiana, and not for "great corporate interests." Responsible for the issuance of the permits, presumably, is onetime governor Jared Y. Sanders, shrewdest of all Louisiana politicians, attorney for the shoepolish magnates. Jared Y. Sanders is now asking...
...Study of the effects of leaded gasoline (and of carbon monoxide hazards in garages) should be continued, lest chronic degenerative diseases of unobvious character be setting in slowly...
...itself, the limbs, the skin. From the terminal arterioles tiny capillaries suck this blood into venules like tiny, feeble fountains trickling foul blood back to the heart. This venous blood the heart pumps into the lungs for the filth to be burnt there by inhaled oxygen, carried away as carbon dioxide. From the lungs the blood returns red to the heart, which starts it again through the arteries...
Every five years a Pharmacopoeial Convention revises the official list of drugs used by doctors in prescribing and by druggists in filling prescriptions. This year's book adds 40 new drugs and preparations and takes out 192. Some additions: aspirin, salvarsan, carbon tetrachlorid used for hookworm, some local anesthetics and a surgical solution of chlorinated soda, known as the Carrell-Dakin solution that received notoriety during the war. Whiskey and brandy, taken out of the last Pharmacopoeia, are put back in this...