Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edna New comer, 28, a pretty, plumpish brunette nurse from Williamsport, Pa. Also aboard was a woodchuck named Tailwind. Announced purpose of the expedition was to permit Dr. Pisculli to study the effects of fatigue on transatlantic flyers. Believing that many ocean flights have ended tragically because of carbon monoxide gas in the cabin, Dr. Pisculli took along Woodchuck Tailwind (more susceptible to the gas than humans) as a safety gauge...
...atoms moved over paths of a pattern characteristic for each speed. To the delight of Messrs. Kettering, Andrews & Shutts, the relation of the speeds to one another coincided almost exactly with the relation of vibration lines in the spectrogram of water. Thereupon they built "molecules" of benzene, toluene, carbon tetrachloride and methane and found that they worked almost exactly according to current atomic theory, thereby confirming that theory mechanically and giving instructors beautifully precise tools for classroom exposition...
...Calif. Died. Vere Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, 41, novelist (Great Waters, Thy Dark Freight), sister of Novelist Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson (If Winter Comes); in London. Died. James C. Lawrence, 42, dean of administration at University of Minnesota, member of President Hoover's first Unemployment Relief Committee; by inhaling carbon monoxide; in Minneapolis. Died. Ray Austin Graham, 45, treasurer of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., youngest of the three Graham brothers who acquired Paige Motor Co. in 1927; by drowning himself; in Chatham, Ont. His brother, Robert Cabel Graham, and a priest were taking him to the Loyola House of Retreat...
Burned blackly into medical annals is the fire in Surgeon George Washington Crile's .Cleveland Clinic (TIME, May 27, 1929). The fire occurred in a basement room wherein were stored x-ray films. The burning films emitted fumes (carbon monoxide and nitrogen tetroxide) which killed scores of Dr. Crile's patients, doctors and employes on the spot. Other scores died during the following weeks. Deaths eventually totalled...
...Waynesburg, Pa., State Senator C. W. Parkinson's son Thomas, trying to drive his father's automobile out of the garage, fainted from lethal carbon monoxide gas. His head fell forward onto the pushbutton in the centre of the steering wheel, blew the horn until neighbors came...