Word: tarring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Extra Precaution. In Los Angeles, when University of Southern California Professor Kenneth L. Trefftzs hired a contractor to build him a fireproof roof, a tar melting machine caught fire and burned down his house...
Sulfas. By the time the vitamin frontier was thickly settled, another frontier was being opened. In 1935 the French broke the secret of a new German drug and published it: a simple substance derived from coal tar would kill the streptococcus germs that often caused fatal infections. The drug was Prontosil; from it came sulfanilamide, first of the modern "wonder drugs" and first of a long line of sulfas. Other companies were the first to find high-powered, patentable variants like sulfamerazine, sulfadiazine, sulfathiazole and sulfaguanidine. Merck chemists got what looked like a dud: sul-faquinoxaline. Never proved safe...
...week, less than a year after the water began to flow over his murals, Diego had to acknowledge that the submerged parts were indeed beginning to fade. As usual, he had an explanation: "It is because of the bad quality of the water. It contains mud, crude oil and tar ... I wash my hands of the whole affair...
...Mike figures he can mold Mollie into another Garbo. Between picture takes, they swap dialogue. She: "That moon looks low enough to bite." He: "I have got a terrible yen for you. It's like a stomach full of broken glass." When words fail him, Mike swabs beach-tar stains off Mollie's feet and kisses her "long thin toes...
...Geigy Co. was trying to find a solvent for the almost insoluble painkiller, Pyramidon. Geigy chemists hit upon phenylbutazone, which worked well as a solvent and then paid a big bonus: it turned out to have remarkable painkilling qualities of its own. Geigy started churning out phenylbutazone (from coal tar) for research...