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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...
Spattering flurries of lead flying through city streets in war-time would constitute an obvious menace to public health. But what if in peacetime city streets were filled with clouds of lead, not bullets, but fine powdery particles mixed in with the whirling gutter-dust, lead deposited by the exhaust-pipes of motors burning gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead (1:1,500) to eliminate motor "knocking"? Would that constitute a health menace...
...went raving mad and died in straitjackets (TIME, Nov. 10, 1924, SCIENCE), the health menace in manufacturing "ethyl gasoline" was recognized. The plant was shut down; the sale of the new gasoline was discontinued. Health authorities investigated also the dangers of handling the fuel and the dangers of encountering exhaust fumes from motors...
Continually on the move, keeping safely away from government boats, and luring them into long pursuits that exhaust their fuel, the runners from shore are trying to reach the beleaguered fleet in time to land their cargoes for the Christmas holidays...
...fire salesmen and other energetic persons to Florida resembles the Yukon rush, except that it is being made despite heat rather than cold. Advertisements of golden opportunities in Florida land appear everywhere throughout the country. The entire country is speculating upon it. Enthusiasm waxes hottest in Miami, where brokers exhaust voices and nerves from 7:30 a. m. to 12 p. m. daily...