Word: tarring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experts also heard more about phenylbutazone, a nonhormonal substance synthesized from coal tar (TIME, June 16, 1952). They got an encouraging report on the use of phenylbutazone in the treatment of gout and gouty arthritis by Dr. William C. Kuzell of the Stanford University School of Medicine: major improvement or complete relief in 168 cases out of 200. Bad side effects, which have proved so serious that many U.S. doctors frown on phenylbutazone, were noted in 52 cases, but of these, 38 were cases in which it was possible to continue the treatment successfully, because the degree of toxicity...
Volunteer firefighters made the mistake of turning a hose on the blaze, only helped to spread it. Soon a blazing oil tank set a tar roof afire, sending a shower of burning tar on fleeing workers. Firemen came by scores from half a dozen towns, but were helpless. Three workers and one fireman perished* and 40 others were injured. Solvents, cleaning compounds, acids and gases burst into angry, hungry flames that were whipped by a brisk west wind. Steel columns twisted and dipped like trees bowed by an ice storm. It was the worst fire in the history of Detroit...
Typical contraband seized by the British last month: auto clutch plates hidden under a load of fish, 2,712 Ibs. of scrap iron disguised as ballast, 82 tons of asphalt passing as dirty, but legal, coal tar. The British concede that about 200 tons of merchandise - about 1,000th of Hong Kong's intake-gets across to the Communists every week. Even with what goes in to Macao and Lap Sap Mei, it is not enough for the building of industrial China. Only peace and a resumption of normal trade would do that...
Deep, in India's Punjab, near the Himalayan foothills, a burning sun beat down last week on 30,000 sweating laborers. Women in bright saris poured concrete into wooden forms; long lines of men gouged out foundations, spread smoking tar on road surfaces with hands swathed in jute sacking. Bulldozers grunted and dusty trucks rumbled up with loads of hand-made brick. The name of the place was Chandigarh, and there last week the world's most modern city was rising from a desolate plain...
...child, he found playmates among the skunks, rabbits, birds and snakes near his house. Later he traveled to Los Angeles' famed La Brea tar pits to help the paleontologists dig up prehistoric fossils...