Word: poisoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MOVING FINGER-Agatha Christie -Dodd, Mead ($2). Grey-haired Miss Marple, whose innocent face conceals a good deal of criminal knowledge and detecting skill, stops her knitting long enough to present the puzzled police with the solution of a poison-pen plot that leads to suicide and murder. A smoothly flowing and flawlessly constructed story...
Scheduled to appear Thursday evening is State Gas Officer Theodore Sargent, who will speak on war gases. No spouter of complicated technical terms, Sargent is well known for his clear discussions of chemical warfare and the methods used to combat poison...
...cure an ivy-poisoned soldier, one-tenth of a cc. of the extract (diluted with one cc. of salt solution) is injected intramuscularly. Burning sensations vanish within two to 24 hours, all blistering within two to five days, and no hospitalization is needed. The average untreated case suffers from one to three weeks, often in a hospital. Sergeant Shapiro's extract cannot prevent ivy poisoning; it desensitizes skin only after an attack. Applied externally, it produces a fine case of poison ivy itself...
Sergeant Shapiro, who before the war was a chemist for a New Jersey flavoring-extract firm, has already brewed 50,000 cc. of the poison-ivy inoculant-enough for half a million injections. But the extract is not his invention. It was developed by Colonel Sanford Williams French, a longtime Army doctor who commands the medical branch of the Fourth Service Command. French, one of the 40% of mankind who are relatively immune to poison ivy, can safely gather the plant barehanded. Sergeant Shapiro cannot. Paradoxically, he is one of the few individuals on whom the poison-ivy extract will...
...veteran of World War I, Colonel George F. Unmacht, Hawaiian Coordinator for Civilian Gas Defense, is the creator of the bunny mask. With a Jap gas attack always a dread possibility, Colonel Unmacht decided that he "wanted something that would temporarily protect very young children from the effects of poison gas until they could be removed from the gas area." His emergency solution was to set the women stitching together sacks which, when impregnated with gas-resistant chemicals, could be drawn over infants' heads and tied tightly at the bottom. But how would a child like to have...