Word: ethyle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year's Day. In New York City alone, 46 deaths due to alcoholism were reported during the holidays this year; a proportionate number of deaths occurred throughout the land; the alcoholic wards of hospitals were full. Then on Jan. 1, the new Government formula for denaturing industrial ethyl alcohol went into effect. It doubles the amount of poison which manufacturers are required to use.* The old argument of whether or not the Government has the right to use poison to enforce the Prohibition law raged...
...formula "No.5" adds 4 parts methanol (wood alcohol), 2.25 parts pyridine bases, 0.5 parts benzene to 100 parts ethyl alcohol. Three ordinary drinks of this may cause blindness...
...Subsequent intelligence from Danbury, last week, showed that the gas which had escaped (and which may not have been the whole cause of the fatalities) was not methyl chloride but a compound of ethyl chloride and methyl bromide, called "Methide" by its manufacturers. Most manufacturers employ the safe methyl chloride in their machines...
These investigators reported that all was well. Care would have to be taken in handling the potent tetraethyl lead, but garage workers and people in the street were safe enough. Experiments at Pittsburgh on animals had shown that the deposition of lead from an ethyl gas exhaust was very small...
Having no authority to set down or enforce regulations for distributing and handling gasoline, Surgeon General Gumming announced that ha would call a conference of health officials from all the States. Pending regulations, the Ethyl Gasoline Co., chief manufacturer of the new fuel, promised to cooperate upon resuming its sales...