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Word: mckillop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assistant Cook A. M. McKillop was short-handed and in a tearing hurry. His supper menu at the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane, in Salem, called for scrambled eggs. He needed powdered milk to make them. Against the rules he dispatched a kitchen-helper inmate to the catacomb-like cellar to bring him a new supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death by Fluoride | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...last the truth came out. The kitchen helper seeking the powdered milk had dim-wittedly come back from the wrong storeroom with seven pounds of sodium fluoride roach powder, with which hurried, overworked Cook McKillop had scrambled the eggs. At week's end McKillop and his boss, Mary O'Hare, were booked on charges of involuntary manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death by Fluoride | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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