Operation LAC
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Operation LAC was a United States Army Chemical Corps operation which dispersed microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide particles over much of the United States and Canada in order to test dispersal patterns
A C-119 Flying Boxcar, the type of plane used to release the chemicals
Pruitt–Igoe
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The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe, were joint urban housing projects first occupied in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The complex of 3
Operation LAC
…from 1953 into the mid-1960s. In St. Louis in the mid 1950s, and again a decade later, the army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide via motorized blowers atop Pruitt-Igoe, at schools, from the backs of station wagons, and via planes. Operation LAC was undertaken in 1957 and 1958 by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. The…
The Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments complex
The second, widely televised demolition of a Pruitt–Igoe building on April 21, 1972.
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