Word: phenols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their aging faces was sagging and wrinkled. When they came out, $3,000 poorer after about three weeks, their faces were usually pink and unnaturally smooth. But last week Cora Galenti's well-paying fountain was turned off by the law. Its source was a bottle of phenol (carbolic acid), which made the treatment both painful and dangerous...
...open sewer. Game fish bellied up and died; riverfront Manhattan Beach, near Bellevue, Ky., was covered with a foul slime; Louisville's water system doused river water so heavily with chemicals that the citizens howled; on its best days, the river gave off the medicinal odor of phenol poured out of coke ovens. For decades the river cities and towns complained to each other about the mess coming from upstream, contributed to the mess downstream. Then a determined Cincinnati pressagent, rushing in where poets refused to paddle, launched a 25-year cleanup drive that is only now beginning...