Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charged with helping her mother, Baroness von Dueben, to commit suicide, Mrs. Else Wille Bang pleaded in Copenhagen that the Baroness was suffering from an incurable ailment, explained that she had given her mother poison in the guise of medicine to put her out of her misery. The trial of Mrs. Bang ended month and a half ago. She was sentenced to only three months in jail. Last week long, lean King Christian X sympathetically reviewed the case of his subject Mrs. Bang, pardoned...
...proposal" was a world-sized plan for major reduction in all forms of armaments (see p. 14). Armies were to be cut one-third above necessary "police components." All tanks, large mobile guns and bombing planes were to be abolished along with chemical warfare and poison gas. Battleship fleets were to be cut one-third, cruiser, destroyer and aircraft carrier tonnage onefourth. No nation was to have more than 35,000 tons of submarine. The President raised his voice emphatically to declare: "The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method...
Mercury Detector. General Electric built a large, efficient generator at Hartford, operated by mercury vapor instead of steam (TIME. July 8, 1929), is building another at Schenectady. The mercury boilers are dangerous because they might leak mercury, poison the workmen. A delicate mercury detector was in order. It is a yellow plaque of selenium sulfide. A few drops of mercury in a furnace through which pass more than 200,000 Ib. of flue gas an hour, said A. J. Nerad, blackens the yellow plaque. The degree of blackening indicates the amount of mercury present. A photo-electric cell measures...
...Port Hope, Ont, hearing that university students sometimes took small doses of strychnine poison to sharpen their wits, High-School Student Gwendolyn Thomas took some strychnine before an examination, died screaming...
...Recommitted to conference the $177,000,000 Agriculture appropriation bill to eliminate $1,450,000 for grasshopper poison...