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    radium salts dissolved in water. The son of industrialist Alexander Byers, Eben Byers was educated at St. Paul's School and Yale College. He earned a reputation...
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    ended in 1932, with the premature death of one of its most fervent users, Eben Byers, an American golfer. This history led to the strengthening of regulatory...
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  • of this condition was the death of American golfer and industrialist Eben Byers in 1932, after taking large doses of Radithor, a radioactive patent medicine...
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    health, and high-profile cases such as the Radium Girls and the death of Eben Byers, which proved this fact. In the United States, the 1938 Federal Food,...
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    developer William J. A. Bailey to have curative properties. Industrialist Eben Byers died in 1932 from ingesting it in large quantities throughout 1927–1930...
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  • cartoonist, and artist Eben Byers (1880–1932), American socialite, golfer and industrialist who died from drinking radioactive "medicine" Eben Pomeroy Colton...
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  • was a chronically lethal mixture, and was responsible for the death of Eben Byers in 1932, who died of radiation-induced cancer after drinking about 1,400...
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  • radioactive material, notably in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and Eben Byers The action of neutron poisons that inhibit nuclear chain reactions Any...
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    Baltusrol Golf Club 1903 Walter Travis (3) 5 & 4 Eben Byers Nassau Country Club 1902 Louis N. James 4 & 2 Eben Byers Glen View Club 1901 Walter Travis (2) 5 &...
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  • credit is given to the deaths of many people in the 1930s, including Eben Byers in 1932 from the ingestion of radithor and many women, some known as The...
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