Word: poison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers. The U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine already has spent $2,500,000, and provided gratis 188,700 tons of deadly delicacy beloved by grasshoppers, a mixture of bran and sodium arsenite. The Bureau will ship enough more to spread 40,000,000 acres with poison bait by season's end. So that the grasshoppers will take readily to the fare, it is mixed with sawdust and water or molasses, flung over infested fields from buckets, or spread from barrels by whirling disks which the farmers rig on the rear axles of old automobiles...
...playing against the Scoreboard in their year-round circuit of medal-play tournaments, many an able pro succumbs to fluttering nerves in a man-to-man contest. But to most U. S. pros there is a hobgoblin even more terrifying: a wispy, 135-lb. colleague affectionately known as "Little Poison...
...following notable drugs may poison the marrow in the bones, decrease the production of white blood cells, may cause death, and should be taken as medicine only with specific instructions from a well-informed doctor, said Dr. Roy Rack-ford Kracke, Atlanta blood specialist: amidopyrine, dinitrophenol, novaldin, antipyrine, sulfanilamide, sedormid, salvarsan...
THEY TALKED OF POISON - March Everymay-Macmillan ($2). At a meeting of a crime seminar in a university near Baltimore a dog dies of strychnine, and the deaths of a parson and his daughter (from different causes) follow. Long-winded but literate...
...irreverence to the manager: "My God, it's disgraceful." Responsible for the revival of The Sheik in New York was President Harry Brandt of New York's Independent Theatre Owners Association, Inc., who last month announced that a quorum of Hollywood's top-ranking stars were "poison at the box office." Chortled Mr. Brandt, whose picture was doing almost as lively a trade as Mr. Jensen's just down the avenue: "It took a star like Valentino who has been dead twelve years to bring people to the box office...