Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humans. The group advised Velsicol not to manufacture Phosvel because of its high toxidity and its adverse effects on test animals. Velsicol ignored the report and began producing the pesticide in 1971, providing no industrial safeguards for its workers. Employees shovelled the pesticide into bags, while clouds of dust containing Phosvel floated through the plant. Velsicol ignored warnings from environmental groups and its own medical experts about illnesses related to Phosvel among plant employees. Velsicol closed down in 1975, after federal agencies told managers they planned to inspect the plant the next month...
...insects is Kepone, produced by the Life Science Products plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The plant began production of the highly toxic chemical in March, 1974. Within weeks, employees began to experience symptoms of tremors and ataxia (loss of control of some motor functions). Federal health inspectors found Kepone dust thick in the air of the plant, blanketing the floor, and covering tables where the workers ate their meals...
...ground trembled and the sky darkened with clouds of dust as the volcanic eruptions began. Startled, the animals gathered at the water hole?hyenas, saber-toothed tigers, giant elephants ?took off in a great stampede. Joining in the flight were small creatures that though they looked like apes, walked upright. Before long, the rain of volcanic ash had completely buried the site and all signs of the life around...
...songs and thinking about a woman. And even Waylon's death wish, which came through on the uneven Luchenbach album when he recorded "Sweet Caroline" and sometimes makes you think he wants to be Tom Jones or Engelbert Humperdinck, makes for a surprising cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman...
...Lions, who are one game behind Penn in the Ivy League race, will run and gun with the Quakers and third-place Princeton next weekend in Morningside Heights. When the dust clears, one of the quintets will have earned an NCAA berth and the runner-up will...