Word: velsicol
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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This interesting theory has not yet been proved by experiments. Besides, asked the critics, how did a large amount of endrin get into the Mississippi in the first place? For a while, PHS blamed the Velsicol Chemical Corp., which manufactures endrin at Memphis. But the company had a ready reply. "If our endrin got into the river," asked a Velsicol official, "why weren't thousands of fish killed around our plant, instead of 770 miles downstream?" PHS answered that the doomed catfish probably got poisoned near Memphis and swam to the river's mouth before they died...