Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Lake Michigan. Suddenly, one licked him out of sight. In Chicago, the blizzard sent pedestrians sprawling, snapped power lines, broke windows and stopped traffic. Thunder hammered across a sky that flashed red, purple and orange. For good measure, the dust from Texas arrived to turn the snow yellow and brown, and started Chicagoans searching their Bibles...
...trouble started early last month. Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling (an ex-Government Wildlife man) found the beach near his Captiva home strewn with dead fish. More were floating offshore, belly-up, and the water was heavily laced with sickly yellow-green streaks...
...down the coast it was the same story. A fishing boat with a well built into its hull to keep its catch alive steered into one of the streaks. As soon as the yellow-green water got into the well, the captive fish swam to the surface, gulping air. Then they were as dead as their uncaught fellows outside...
...fish; perhaps they suffocate fish by blocking their gills. But there is no quick remedy. This week dead fish, but fewer of them, were still coming ashore. The only thing Florida chambers of commerce could do was hope that the next cold snap would clear the sea of yellow-green streaks...
...Streptomycin still looks like the most promising foe of tuberculosis, but Dr. Alfred Marshak of the U.S. Public Health Service found another likely-looking one: a yellow crystal extracted from California Spanish moss (not to be confused with the lacy Spanish moss that hangs from trees). It checks T.B. in guinea pigs, has still to be tested...