Word: tetraethyl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture. While U.S. chimneys belch 100,000 tons of sulfur dioxide every day, 90 million motor vehicles add 230,000 tons of carbon monoxide (52% of smog) and other lethal gases, which then form ozone and peroxyacetyl nitrate that kill or stunt many plants, ranging from orchids to oranges. Tetraethyl lead in auto exhausts affects human nerves, increasing irritability and decreasing normal brain function. Like any metal poison, lead is fatal if enough is ingested. In the auto's 70-year history, the average American's lead content has risen an estimated 125-fold, to near maximum tolerance...
...history, a company that has spent apparently reckless millions on apparently useless laboratory research, and seen it pay off. Most of Du Pont's current products are things that never existed on land or sea until Du Pont research discovered or developed them: cellophane, nylon, Lucite and neoprene, tetraethyl (antiknock) lead for gasoline, Dacron and plastics. The latest product (not mentioned in the book) is known as Corfam, a scuff-resistant, water-repellent synthetic leather (TIME, April 3) that may in time revolutionize the shoe industry...