Word: tars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were other details to be thought of as well. It would be necessary, Bedrich reckoned, to line their traveling space with tar paper, to throw sniffing police dogs off the scent. They would need an escape hatch in the floor of the car, and a system of air vents to prevent suffocation. In case this failed to work, son Marian promised to provide a tank of oxygen from the lumberyard machine shop. During the next five months, while Marian checked him in daily on the lumberyard time clock, Bedrich Cech made four exploratory trips checking train times and routes...
...Aboard. One day last month, using some faulty loadings in the past as an excuse, Boss Marian sent his workers home and announced that he personally was going to load the next flatcar. At dusk, carrying their drugged children, their tools, their tar paper, the oxygen tank, some food, water, and the inevitable bottle of slivovitz, Bedrich and his daughter-in-law Drahomira climbed into the space Marian had left in the lumber. Marian followed, pulling some boards over his head. As the train pulled out for Trieste, the men went to work lining their tiny stateroom with the tar...
...giving $250,000 to the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund, which supports New York University's Institute of Industrial Medicine, which is trying to find the cancer-causing factor in cigarette tar...
...pipe and cigar smokers, who seldom inhale. ¶ Why does lung cancer concentrate on men in middle life? Because the cancer-causing factor seems to be a slow-acting agent, which may need half an individual's normal life span to do its deadly work. ¶ If cigarette tar contains a cancer-causing agent, why don't all cigarette smokers get lung cancer? Some do not live long enough to get the cancer; many more would never get it anyhow because of the element of susceptibility, which leaves some individuals liable while the majority escape, as is true...
Nicotine Acquitted. What to do? One obvious answer is to isolate and purify whatever it is in cigarette tar that causes cancer. Then, perhaps, experimental cancers can be produced faster. But no less than 45 different substances have been identified (and many more are suspected) in the tar; 15 of these, including nicotine, have been tested for cancer-causing powers and acquitted, and most of the other 30 seem unlikely culprits. At New York University's Institute of Industrial Medicine, Chemist Alvin Kosak and Physician William E. Smith are breaking down tobacco tar into several fractions and testing each...