Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dishonor to make ends meet. A fellow Austrian urges them to go back to Vienna. But just then their U.S. visas come through-only for the consulate's doctor to find that Franz' condition, despite his heroic efforts to hide it, is hopeless. Only by swallowing poison can he set his wife and Bubi free...
...article Bronner mentioned that in small quantities fluoride is a deadly poison with no known antidote. When interviewed, Dr. James H. Shaw, Assistant Professor of Dental Medicine at the Harvard Dental School, replied that this statement was true, but in order to be dangerous the quantity would have to be 200 to 300 times that proposed by the city of Cambridge...
...obvious remedy for Pennsylvania's epizootic is to thin out the foxes, estimated to number 95,000 in the 19 counties. Aided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state's wildlife authorities have mobilized more than 100 skilled game wardens armed with traps and poison. Their aim is to clear foxes from "control corridors" twelve to 16 miles wide around the infected area. Favorite bait is crow carcasses laced with strychnine and buried in "dirt holes" where foxes cache surplus food. Most wild animals dislike crow, but foxes have nothing against it. Each poisoned bait will...
Flexing her muscles last week, Sheilah began her new job by dishing out some of the casual poison that has got her barred from the sets of such Hollywood stars as Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart. Samples: "Errol [Flynn] says he doesn't worry about money just as long as he can reconcile his net income with his gross habits . . . Lana Turner is saying that Bob Topping owes her $82,000. Moral: Never marry a trust fund...
Time for Reminders. To Argentines, the speech was a breath-taking turnabout. Evita Peron's newspaper Democracia rose loyally to the new challenge by delivering a forthright attack on meat: "It will wreck your liver, undermine your health, poison you with proteins and provoke serious digestive disturbances." But the presidential conversion gave the Radical Party weekly Adelante a first-class chance to trounce the regime...