Word: chemists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manno, who had salvaged it from broken Arm & Hammer brand packages. In two weeks bargain-hunting housewives had snapped up 800 lb. Examination showed no traces of poison in other broken Arm & Hammer packages, thus indicating that Rosenthal's soda had been contaminated during or since salvage. A chemist reported that it could hardly have been an accident, because the poisons and soda were too thoroughly mixed...
...plot. Likeliest suspect was a Chicago chef who in 1912, at a banquet for Cardinal Mundelein, put arsenic in the soup of 1,000 guests, killed several, sickened hundreds. Indicted for murder, the chef escaped, has since been accused of two other mass poisonings by arsenic. A New York chemist made San Francisco's mystery more exciting by reporting that he had found similar mixtures of arsenic and fluoride in baking soda two years ago. Director Geiger set out to investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans who had died of acute gastritis or kidney ailments within the fortnight...
Foolish was Faust, chemist-supreme of Marlowe...
...chemist can sell short and earn his fame...
...Chemist W. M. Cohn of Berkeley, Calif, described the solar furnace invented in Germany which he uses for high-temperature work. It consists of a coelostat (flat mirror geared to follow the sun) which feeds the rays into a concave reflector whence they are sharply focused on the substance under treatment. Dr. Cohn uses the sun furnace to make a clear, yellowish, glassy lining for kilns out of zirconium oxide. A half-minute under the reflector melts the oxide at 4,850° F. Higher temperatures than this have been obtained in electric furnaces, but Dr. Cohn believes that...