Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military students who remembered similar predictions about the machine gun, the airplane, the tank, and poison gas remained skeptical. But none could doubt that terrifying new vistas of destruction had been opened...
Mexicana. In Mexico City, Gráfico reported that the Health Department was about to clamp down on "The Last Supper," a popular rat poison...
...owes its deadliness partly to an almost unique property: on insects it acts as both a contact and stomach poison. It first paralyzes an insect's hind legs, then gives it a violent attack of the jitters, finally brings on complete paralysis and death. Oddly, the pure chemical has little effect; it is good only in an oil solution or when mixed with inert powder. The usual dose is 1% to 5% DDT, dissolved in kerosene or mixed with a dust filler...
...soon as the students became aware of her identity, her first words were greeted with cheers and jeers. She tried to warn them against cigarette-smoking teachers. Then she came to the subject of the intoxicating items on the menu. "Boys! Don't eat that infernal stuff. Its poison," she cried...
...Other suggestions for industrial crops: japan wax and lacquer from the poison oak of southern swamplands; sugar and byproducts from the neglected southwestern maple tree; storax for perfumes and flavors from the sweet gum tree; yellow dyes from the Osage orange or hedge apple...