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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council on Pharmacy & Chemistry last week refused to approve the use of the compound as a medicine. Dinitrophenol of which they all were so fearful promises to be a vigorous prod for sluggards and a subtle weapon for murderers. It is a yellow, crystalline powder closely related to picric acid (of which explosives and ointments for burns are made). It costs only $12 a pound and is easily purchasable...
...party in Manhattan last week to observe a new, clean method of performing their job. The standard system requires the subject to smudge his thumbs and fingers with printers' ink. messy and hard to remove. The new method utilizes a pad impregnated with a colorless, nonpoisonous chemical compound and a special paper sensitive to that compound. When the subject presses his digits upon the pad, then upon the paper, his prints immediately appear with photographic clarity, his fingers remain clean, less suggestive of wrongdoing...
...word pompholygopaplilasma (for that is the correct transliteration) was invented by the comic poet Aristophanes, and may be found at 1. 249 of his play The Frogs. It is made up of pompholyx which means a bubble, and paphlisma which means a frothing or foaming up. Hence the Aristophanic compound represents the sound made by bubbles rising. Onomatopoetic compounds of this type are common in the comic writers. Inasmuch as The Frogs was produced in 405 B.C., the word antedates by some centuries the imaginary piece of research described by your correspondent...
Valerian is a cheesy-smelling sedative prepared from an herb root. Last year chemists compounded it with zinc or ammonia, loaded the mixture with ether, sealed it in glass thermos bottles. About five months ago Chicago thugs, hired by racketeering labor unionists, began smashing such thermos bottles inside factories and showrooms. When the highly volatile ether spreads through the room, bearing molecules of the valerian compound, the compound penetrates carpets, garments, walls, floors. Overwhelming is its lasting stench...
...high, sharp smell of the ammonia-valerian compound is bad enough. Far worse is the low, heavy, dirty odor of the zinc-valeric bomb, comparable only to the concentrated essence of a marching army's foot-smell...