Word: cyanamid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, a toxicologist for American Cyanamid, which markets the controversial weed-killer, stated that a person "would have to consume 15,000 pounds of contaminated cranberries a day for many years" to sustain ill effects. Belatedly, Flemming's Department dispatched a hundred chemists to separate the good cranberries from...
...Williamsburg section, an American Cyanamid Co. tank truck backed up to the Radio Receptor Co.'s plant (which makes electronic equipment) to deliver 500 gallons of nitric acid. Driver Benjamin Sidla hooked up his hose to a pipe indicated by employees, started pumping. After a few minutes, a man rushed up from the basement, yelled to Sidla: "You'd better stop. The fumes are terrible down there." Somehow the nitric acid had been diverted into a 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrochloric. Result: royal water, which was already beginning to dissolve the tank's rubber lining, eating...
...American Cyanamid...
...were off to $15.2 million from $20.1 million; Inland Steel's dropped to $12.1 million from $13.4 million; RCA's net fell to $6.3 million from $8.0 million; Reynolds Metals' to $8.9 million from $9.3 million; National Distillers' to $5.1 million from $6.0 million; American Cyanamid's to $8,687,983 from...
...Sweat. A chemical textile finish (Cyana) that prevents perspiration odors from contaminating clothing was put on the market by American Cyanamid Co., will appear on Van Heusen's spring-line shirts. Applied to a textile, Cyana causes no change in the fabric's color or feel, remains effective even after 50 washings (unless chlorine bleach is used...