Word: sodaed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Mlle Jeanne Levy explained to the French Academy of Sciences why bicarbonate of soda helps hangover sufferers. Her experiments on alcoholized rats persuaded her that it was not a matter of acid-alkali balance. The carbonated rats breathed faster than normally, and rapid, deep breathing is known to pass alcohol quickly out of the body by way of the lungs...
Well, the host started pouring scotch and sodas at about three-thirty. By four-thirty we had cut out the soda but the scotch was still being ordered from a dealer in Harvard Square and consumed, case after case, as fast as it was delivered. By five there was no more good scotch in Harvard Square, and you know those Harvard boys, they just will not drink poor scotch. So they ordered a couple of gallons of gin. Soon that was gone too. One of the tutors suggested draining the alcohol out of his radiator, but there was a Radcliffe...
...week City Health Director Jacob Casson Geiger was summoned to a telephone, informed that one Albert Perry, 87, had just died of arsenic poisoning. That night Albert Perry's daughter Bessie, 53, also died. Next morning authorities found arsenic and sodium fluoride in the family's baking soda, traced the soda to a cut-rate department store run by one Joseph Rosenthal. Twenty-one other soda-users were discovered ill. Taking to the radio, Director Geiger warned San Franciscans to eat no more of the Rosenthal soda...
Investigation disclosed that Merchant Rosenthal had bought his soda by the barrel from one Nick Manno, who had salvaged it from broken Arm & Hammer brand packages. In two weeks bargain-hunting housewives had snapped up 800 lb. Examination showed no traces of poison in other broken Arm & Hammer packages, thus indicating that Rosenthal's soda had been contaminated during or since salvage. A chemist reported that it could hardly have been an accident, because the poisons and soda were too thoroughly mixed...
...guests, killed several, sickened hundreds. Indicted for murder, the chef escaped, has since been accused of two other mass poisonings by arsenic. A New York chemist made San Francisco's mystery more exciting by reporting that he had found similar mixtures of arsenic and fluoride in baking soda two years ago. Director Geiger set out to investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans who had died of acute gastritis or kidney ailments within the fortnight. The puzzle was only partly solved when a barrel of pure sodium fluoride was found among the soda barrels in Rosenthal's store...