Word: slicer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of this information has been released by the tight-lipped Navy, but the latest Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent Office (sold to all askers for $17.50 per year) contains a fair description, between an automatic arc starter and a wire cheese slicer, of U.S. Patent 2,461,797, Zwicky's underwater...
...roast beef slicer in the central kitchen caused the epidemic of food poisoning last November, Edward W. Moore, associate professor of Sanitary Chemistry, told the CRIMSON last night. If his theory is right, Moore claimed, the dining halls may be able to prevent any recurrences of the attack...
Circumstantial evidence, backed by tests, indicates that through a "unique" combination of temperature and time, staphylococcus bacteria from the slicer transferred to the meat and produced a poisonous toxin, Moore explained...
...because poisoning claimed victims only in the five Houses served by the central kitchen, Moore reported, it is likely that the bacteria on the slicer was the source of infection...
Then the monarch went back to his hobbies: billiards and turning the handle of his grocer's bacon-slicer...