Word: potts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down is, in most cases, unknown. Many authorities accept the idea of some hereditary susceptibility. Sometimes there are easy, if superficial, explanations. The combination of a chemical carcinogen (cancer-causing factor) with physical irritation is plainly villainous. Cancer of the scrotum among London chimney sweeps was described by Percivall Pott in 1775. The disease disappeared when the sweeps were taught to wash themselves clean of the carcinogenic soot. Lung cancer from inhaling chromate-ore dusts and nickel-refining fumes can be prevented by the wearing of masks, coupled with adequate ventilation. Even the cancer-causing tobacco-tar fractions isolated...
Unfortunately, the first half of the film wrings all the humor from Pott's predicament, leaving the second no fuel to run off. The Moscow scenes, which could have been hilarious, are eked out with stock routines which lost their humor three years ago. The only really comic sequence in the second half if Potts' imitation of a Chinese delegate as he escapes through a Berlin Peace Conference...
...week registered its first sale. The Inland Waterways Corp., which was begun by the Coolidge Administration in 1924, was sold to St. Louis Shipbuilding and Steel Co.'s new subsidiary, Federal Waterways Corp. of Delaware, for about $9,000,000. St. Louis Shipbuilding is owned by Herman T. Pott, 58, who has never before run a river freight system, though he is the largest U.S. builder of towboats and a leading builder of barges. (In the last 10 years he has supplied 20% of I.W.C.'s new vessels...
...While Sir Frederick Pott shut his eyes for a shot...