Word: whiff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week utility investors got a whiff of further equity offerings to come. Answering SEC's demand for an integration plan, far-flung Standard Gas & Electric announced "partial compliance." It proposed to sell control of its properties in California and the Northwest to holders of (and in exchange for) its own notes and debentures, thus freeing three subsidiaries, retiring part of its debt, reducing its own size. Last month SECommissioner Mathews accepted a job with the Standard Gas system because Standard's management had convinced him that it was trying to comply with the spirit of the Holding...
...only five per cent of the persons examined . . . were found to be completely free from pathological signs and symptoms." So strong a solvent is C52 that its fumes, inhaled, destroy the fatty sheaths of nerves, soften the fat matter of the brain. For some people, even a whiff is enough to produce a difficulty in walking. First symptom of poisoning, said Drs. Trumper & Gordy, is a kind of drunkenness, a "C52 jag." Then follow "a rich variety of neurologic disorders" including vertigo, vomiting, loss of muscle control, jumping and twitching, "spider webs" before the eyes. Victims are usually sleepy...