Word: poisons
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...Animal Kingdom. In San Francisco, Lief Croch tried to rid his apartment of mice by setting out crackers, spreading poison on every third one. The mice ate all the unpoisoned crackers, left all the others. Lief gathered them up despondently, fell to munching, soon went to the hospital. In New Britain, Conn., Eleanor Borg went up a tree after a stranded kitten, which presently scurried down by itself. It required firemen with ladders to get Eleanor down...
...slump in the production of small arms, heavy artillery, vehicles, etc. is vitally important to them. For its barest needs the Army requires between May and December a 20% increase in railway equipment and Army boat production. Against the day when the desperate enemy may decide to use poison gas, the Army needs a two-thirds increase in the production of gas masks and poison gas. It needs a 95% increase in radar equipment production...
...Conferred with General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff. Then, indicating that he had reason for suspicions, he warned the Axis (for the third time) not to use poison gas, threatened "full and swift retaliation" if they...
...conference at Bermuda had ended in rationalizations. The disease of anti-Semitism festered among the exiled Poles and throughout the world was infecting minds which thrived on prejudice and bigotry. Zygielbojm was only one man, and a tired one. He went to a closet, took down a bottle of poison and drank...
Everywhere grey, genial Custodian Cook, veteran of seven inaugurations and countless special appearances, posted guards against bomb, crackpot or assassin. Two were even assigned to the great three-foot air ducts, lest somebody crawl in and loose poison gas to be swept into the House chamber through the vent over the Speaker's chair...