Word: tars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smell of tar on wet salt...
Known & Unknown. Most cancer men, like London's famed Sir George Lenthal Cheatle, "have a completely open, not to say vacant mind" on the cause of cancer. But two known causes of cancer are now established: 1) organic compounds derived from coal tar, an industrial hazard setting up skin irritations frequently leading to cancer, 2) abnormal metabolism of body chemicals which produce sex hormones (TIME, Sept. 30). Both carcinogens have chemical characteristics in common. Memorial's laboratories have been working on these and a host of research projects on the influences of diet, heredity, radioactive elements on cancer...
...destroyers, looking like absurd little floating factories with their flat decks and four tall funnels, steamed up the harbor. They dropped their anchors, but only long enough for British sailors to go aboard. Then they weighed again, and made out to sea. There, under the Stars & Stripes, gob showed tar how to run the little knifelike craft...
...long winter nights (there is an undenied story that he roundly shellacked the President at poker during a weekend trip); motoring around the countryside in his three-year-old Buick, talking potato and tobacco crops with his farmer constituents; looking out his windows at flower-festooned boats on the Tar River during the spring tulip festival...
Basic Materials: Aluminum, antimony, asbestos, chromium, cotton linters, flax, graphite, hides, industrial diamonds, manganese, magnesium, manila fibre, mercury, mica, molybdenum, optical glass, platinum group metals, quartz crystals, quinine, rubber, silk, tin, toluol (coal-tar derivative used in TNT), tungsten, vanadium, wool...