Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poison & Salve. Actually, most traders expect mercury's price to climb, at least in the long run. Though the U.S. is the world's No. 1 mercury consumer, the nation produces less than a third of the metal it needs. It depends heavily on imports from Spain, whose 2,400-year-old Almaden mine, the world's richest, was first worked by invading Phoenicians. Both U.S. and world demand are growing faster than production, partly because of mercury's increasing use as a catalyst in the making of chlorine and caustic soda for the expanding chemical...
Unclear Process. In reporting en the two outbreaks before the New York Academy of Sciences last week, Dr. Morin and Dr. James Sullivan of Oma ha's Creighton University still hesitated to blame cobalt absolutely. The heart-muscle damage was indeed characteristic of the poisoning effects of cobalt buildup. But none of the victims had actually consumed enough cobalt to poison a normal person. The doctors theorized that the patients' alcoholic habits had in some way lessened their systems' ability to handle the added chemical...
What Reagan confronts at this point is the possibility of an early and bitter clash with the legislature over a retrenchment program that now seems unpopular. Even a man of his limited political experience must realize that such a run-in would probably poison any programs he might try to push through in the future...
...frontiersman's traditional snake bite remedy came in a bottle, and was shown, years ago, to be bad medicine. Alcohol increases the blood flow in the extremities and thus helps to spread the poison. Now a Florida surgeon suggests that the currently fashionable technique, combining a tourniquet with crosswise incisions and sucking out the venom, may not be much better. His recommendation: cut out a piece of flesh at the bite site...
...Trapped Poison. An inversion layer of warm air domed over the region the day before Thanksgiving, trapping the dirty air beneath it. Westerly winds, which normally whisk away 'the 17.6 million lbs. of pollutants that New York City alone spews into the air each day, were nowhere to be found. By Thanksgiving, despite the holiday inactivity, New York's pollution reached five times its normal level of noxious carbon monoxide from cars, soot and fly ash from chimneys and potentially deadly sulphur dioxide from soft fuel oil and coal fires...