Word: tar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despised Origins. Like several other cities, Chicago purifies sewage with a combination of mechanical and chemical processes. One product is clean water. The other is "sludge," a black goo that smells like tar and has the consistency of pea soup. The sanitary district's problem has been what to do with the sludge. In the past, Chicago sold tons of dried sludge to Florida citrus growers as fertilizer. But drying the waste caused massive amounts of air pollution and was expensive...
...would go beyond broadcasting to embrace Canadian newspapers, magazines and billboards. In addition, each cigarette package would have to carry the tar and nicotine level of its contents and the admonition, "Warning: Danger to health increases with amount smoked. Avoid inhaling." Every cigarette must have a ring printed around it near the middle to caution the smoker that if he puffs beyond that point, he will get increased concentrations of tar and nicotine...
...proposal would also give the government authority to set standards for tar and nicotine content. As a result, say industry officials, the expected strict requirements could make Canadian cigarettes "tasteless" and encourage bootlegged imports from the U.S. For all their complaints, tobacco men are highly unlikely to violate the law. Anyone who does will face a maximum fine of $100,000 or five years in jail-or both...
Though no tankers have foundered around Bermuda, there are ominous signs of growing oil pollution in the area. For one, the island's famous pink beaches are now marred by traces of tar. Another sign shows up in studies made by David Wingate, a government conservationist. In 1968, he found oil clotting the underfeathers of 1 in every 100 longtails, a graceful sea bird that breeds in Bermuda. This year the ratio rose to 1 in 4. Wingate believes that floating particles of tar-perhaps caused by tankers pumping, out their tanks, smear the birds as they...
...Bermuda cahow, a rare marine bird supposedly doomed by pesticides flushed into the ocean, is apparently staging a comeback. This year the world's last 24 pairs of cahows have produced twelve healthy chicks. A likely reason, Wingate thinks, might be that the rising tide of floating tar is at least temporarily absorbing the harmful pesticides...