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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tank cars filled with 45,000 gallons of arsenic trichloride stood on a railroad siding in the town of Horse Cave, Ky. (pop. 2,000) last week, slowly dripping one of the deadliest of poisons. Four years ago the oily, yellowish liquid was bought as surplus from the Army's Chemical Corps (which had used it during World War II to make lethal Lewisite gas) by a company which planned to use one of its derivatives in drilling oil wells. Later the company went out of business, leaving the cargo unclaimed...
...nearly a mile along the lake front, the small-arms drone, insistent and incessant, was heard again. Last week, with something of the sound of mock war, the National Rifle and Pistol Matches were in full crackle at Ohio's Camp Perry. More than 1,300 sharpshooters, the deadliest of U.S. deadeyes, plunked slug after slug through the hearts of the targets...
Botulism, the deadliest of all food poisonings, was reported only twice, but it killed four of its five victims. Since the bacteria which secrete botulin can thrive only when they are carelessly sealed in a nourishing medium without air, botulism nowadays is associated with home canning. In California, two victims ate home-canned mushrooms; in Oregon, two ate home-canned beets. They would have been all right if they had reboiled the food...
Quirino and a member of the President's Liberal Party, praise from Quirino's deadliest political enemy is already proving embarrassing, and it may ultimately prove to be dangerous. A man of great energy and ability and of indisputable honesty, Magsaysay is normally ambitious, and would, in usual circumstances, aspire to direct the destiny of his country. Already Magsaysay finds jealousy and suspicious scowls on the faces of his Liberal Party colleagues at presidential cabinet meetings, and some have taken to cutting him dead. Quirino recognizes the folly of seeming to sabotage so popular a national hero. Recently...
Frozen in Death. Human subjects, of course, are not exposed to the deadliest struggle with G. Rats are the commonest victims for these experiments. They are spun in a smaller centrifuge until everything movable inside their bodies has gone well away from normal position. The rat is then dead, but unfortunately for researchers, his organs do not stay in their distorted position when the G-force is relaxed. The organs creep back toward their proper places, depriving the G-doctors of valuable information...