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...Botulin, manufactured by a common bacillus in badly preserved food, is the most deadly poison known: one ounce theoretically could kill 100 million people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Poisoned Air | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...Force Base he barely nodded to photographers. In Hawaii the next morning, Admiral Arthur W. Radford's pretty wife welcomed him according to island custom; when she put a lei around his neck and kissed his cheek, he reddened, took off the floral offering as if it were poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The General Rose at Dawn | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...Pile of Corpses. Yvonne was taken to Ravensburg concentration camp. For insubordination, she received 30 lashes and was committed to the care of the Nazis' sadistic quacks in the Ravensburg Experimental Station. Eight injections of poison in her right eye blinded it. Other injections destroyed the hearing nerve in one ear. Then the Nazis injected typhus into her blood to make serum. In the typhus block they did not bother to feed prisoners. The countess' last memory of Ravensburg was of feebly trying to fend off a ravenous woman prisoner turned cannibal. Two days later Yvonne awoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Aristocrats | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...course is neither for wets nor drys," he adds. "Obviously, if you don't drink, you don't become alcoholic. But 60 percent of adults are social drinkers, a Gallup poll shows. The public needs to know that one man's drink is another's poison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enrollees in Alcoholism Course to Study 'Benders, Binges, and Bats' | 10/18/1950 | See Source »

...enough copper into their systems. For such cases he would like to see careful medical testing of a diet containing copper-rich items like liver and seafood. But no one, however grey, should try taking his copper straight. In any but the smallest amounts, copper is a cumulative poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hope for the Greying | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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