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Members of his staff are presently studying poisons. At one time it was difficult to detect poison in the system of a dead body, and once detected, to prove it did not come from the embalming fluid...
...insect sting is another man's poison. In Rye, N.Y. last week, Charles Pilger Jr., 28, was stung by a bee, died a few minutes later when his swollen larynx closed. In Vancouver, B.C., 17-month-old Mark Bennett, who had toddled into a wasp nest, been stung 477 times, went home from the hospital completely recovered after 20 days of treatment (with penicillin, ACTH and antihistamines). ¶ Four Brooklyn doctors have found that an extract from the liver of pregnant cows gives prompt relief to most of their cases of osteoarthritis (by far the commonest form of arthritis...
Such a plane, shooting most of its deadly radiation unhindered into the air, will be dangerous on an airfield. When its reactor is running, all men in the vicinity will have to take cover, and the radioactive blasts roaring out of its tailpipes may poison the area permanently. To reduce these hazards, the atom-plane may have to take off with rockets, starting its nuclear engines only when safely up and away. In spite of such precautions it will not be a pleasant airport-mate. Once its reactors have run for a while, they will be radioactive even when shut...
...past eight years, the citizens who live in Paris' Rue La Fayette-a busy, noisy street near the Gare du Nord -have had their blood pressure driven high by a series of poison-pen letters. The writer demanded money for keeping secrets most of the neighbors did not have. The charges, all phony, said such things as, "Your husband belonged to the Gestapo. If you don't bring me 50,000 francs I will denounce him to the police," or "I know who strangled your sweetheart. Send me 50,000 francs and I won't say anything...
Then the researchers dipped their screening strips in dieldrin, a powerful, non-evaporating fly poison, and tacked them up again. The flies took refuge on them in swarms-and died in five seconds. The poison remained effective for more than 16 weeks, slaying battalions of flies. The Cornell scientists believe that this anti-fly tactic is better than indiscriminate spraying of dairy barns and yards. The poison stays on the screening, never strays into the milk...