Detroit / Indianapolis / Washington / Dayton / St. Louis / Potsdam / Washington / DC / Norfolk / Philadelphia / Deepwater / Pittsburgh / Richmond / New York City / Elizabeth / New York / Wilmington / Miami / /
Company
General Motors Company / Albemarle / Ethyl Gasoline Corporation / Standard Oil Co. / Nemours & Company / TEL / Refiners Oil Company / Christian Science Monitor / Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company / Research Corporation / Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust / the New York Times / Kettering / BP / Agency for Toxic Substances / Exxon / General Motors Research Corporation / Lilliputian Deppé Motors / Cities Service / Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey / Standard Oil of New Jersey / the Herald / Dayton Research Laboratories / GM Chemical Company / The General Motors Corporation / General Motors Chemical Company / Octel / Du Pont / PPG / Amoco / Associated Octel Company / Ethyl Corporation / G.M. Corporation / Health / DaimlerChrysler / U.S. Industrial Alcohol Co. / New York State / /
Continent
America / Europe / /
Country
Venezuela / United Kingdom / Germany / United States / /
Currency
USD / cent / /
Event
Patent Filing / M&A / Person Communication and Meetings / Product Issues / Business Partnership / Legal Issues / Name Change / Judicial Event / /
Facility
Deepwater plant / Reconstruction Hospital / Memorial Day / Institute of Technology / New Jersey Turnpike / Standard's New York City headquarters / Standard facility / Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Bayway plant / Radford University / General Motors Institute / Du Pont TEL plant / Du Pont's TEL plant / Standard's facility / Ellesmere Port / GM's New York headquarters / Bayway refinery / /
Holiday
Memorial Day / Christmas Eve / /
IndustryTerm
oil supply / basic transportation / oil-dependent chemical / leaded gasoline subsidiary / leaded gas / brand new car / food / deadly heavy metal / chemicals / local media / state oil / oil fields / paint / metal processing / present car / leaded gas adventurers / modified food / gas pumps / gas masks / oil companies parties / deadly chemical curiosity / insanity gas / machinery / finance / lower gas mileage / manufacturing operation / metal carburetor floats / car exhaust / public relations coup / mystery gas / automobile manufacturer / chemical analysis / poison-gas works / oil supplies / automobile exhaust travel / manufacturing technology / rubber gloves / oil / double gas mileage / loony gas / wire services / gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles / advertising pamphlets / chemical manufacture / high-compression-engined car / mining / /
NaturalFeature
East Coast / Delaware / Delaware River / Great Lakes / /
OperatingSystem
Hurd / /
Organization
US Bureau / PHS's Division of Pharmacology / General Motors Institute / Bureau of Mines / Air Corps / New York City Board of Health / United States government / American Chemical Society / Britain's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution / Reconstruction Hospital / Environmental Protection Agency / US government / Bureau of Mines Reports / Federal Trade Commission / Navy / US Naval Committee / Department of Agriculture / Institute of Technology / MIT / Harvard / Yale / Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry / Congress / Radford University / federal government / Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center / Society of Automotive Engineers in Indianapolis / /
Person
Hugh Cumming / Gerald Markowitz / Irénée / Henry Ford / William Kovarik / David Rosner / JAMIE LINCOLN KITMAN / Thomas Midgley Jr. / William Mansfield Clark / Alan Loeb / H.S. Cumming / Willard Talbott / Matthias Nicoll / Nicholas August Otto / Alfred Sloan / Andrew Mellon / Robert Wilson / T.A. Boyd / Frank Howard / W.F. Harrington / Thomas Edison / Charles Kettering / Reid Hunt / Erik Krause / Hubert Work / A.M. Stimson / Thomas Midgley / Ferris Hurd / Alexander Graham Bell / J. Gilman Thompson / William Crapo Durant / William Clark / A.S. Maxwell / Pierre / Nikander / S.C. Lind / /
Position
businessman / vice president / physician / technical director / superintendent / company chairman / automotive engineer / Professor / chief chemist / chemist / attorney / beloved Model / mechanical engineer / Ethyl sales manager / director in the US Public Health Service / medical consultant / Commissioner / Surgeon General / vice president of research / poet and physician / celebrated engineer and Ethyl VP / spokesman / Roman architect / young engineer / Treasury Secretary / president / biographer / Bayway worker / Butler / assistant Surgeon General / archivist there / newly hired assistant / trusted assistant / chief engineer / attorney and lead historian / researcher / interim president / chairman / director / high priest / lab manager / executive vice president / Secretary of the Interior / lab director / reporter / PHS lab director / research assistant and biographer / /
Product
Franklin / nitroglycerin / effects / safety precautions / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Indiana / California / New Jersey / Delaware / Virginia / Maryland / Florida / New / /
PublishedMedium
the New York Times / The New York World / National Geographic / Scientific American / the Literary Digest / the Christian Science Monitor / /
March 20, 2000 – The Nation THE SECRET HISTORY OF LEAD SPECIAL REPORT by JAMIE LINCOLN KITMAN