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...time would constitute an obvious menace to public health. But what if in peacetime city streets were filled with clouds of lead, not bullets, but fine powdery particles mixed in with the whirling gutter-dust, lead deposited by the exhaust-pipes of motors burning gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead (1:1,500) to eliminate motor "knocking"? Would that constitute a health menace...
Whether or not tetraethyl lead, as prepared for dilution in gasoline to quiet "knocking" motors, would constitute such a poison, scientists disagree...
Last week, U. S. Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming gave notice that the case would be tried by official conference this month in Washington. For the defense of tetraethyl lead, there will be agents of the company (a joint subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation and the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey) at whose plant at Bayway, N.J., workers manufacturing tetraethyl lead went mad with lead poisoning last fall and died in straight jackets (TIME, Nov. 10). For the prosecution there will be scientists who maintain that a U. S. Bureau of Mines report, issued at Pittsburgh in November...
...Surgeon General's conference, no one will suggest that tetraethyl lead is not poisonous. The question will be: Would the exhausts of automobiles burning tetraethylized gasoline spray the country with creeping infirmity and death...
...glass was constructed to study the explosions in gas engines. It was observed that there was not one explosion in a cylinder but two, in close succession. Various lead compounds were mixed with gasoline and tested to improve the operation. It was found that if 1 part of tetraethyl lead were added to 1,000 parts of gasoline, the effect was to retard the explosions- providing one slower detonation instead of two more rapid ones. This improvement prevents "knocking" in ordinary engines and, to a large degree, the deposit of carbon in cylinders. It laid open the possibility of building...