Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls from his year's work as a traffic guard in front of the Centinela grammar school. At the discovery of the bodies, he asked men in the crowd not to smoke "out of respect to the dead." That night his 24-year-old wife Isabel helped him add the day's newspaper clippings about the tragedy to a scrapbook he had begun when the girls were first reported missing. By week's end, with angry crowds surging before the Inglewood City Hall threatening lynching to suspect after suspect, Mrs. Dyer wrote a summary of the crime...
...National Coffee Department has sent $250,000,000 worth of Brazil's chief crop up in smoke. Last week the Department, estimating that the year's bumper crop of 26,000,000 sacks (132.2 Ib. apiece) would leave a 10,000,000-sack surplus to add to the accumulation already on hand, announced that this year it would buy 70% of the crop to burn. Daily burning quota will go up from 60,000 to 100,000 sacks, daily cost to Government and growers...
...connected story with proper emphasis is to be congratulated, and I want to extend those congratulations to TIME. Its account of the "Second battle of the River Raisin" I TIME, June 21 ] is in keeping with TIME'S record. In only one particular I would like to add a codicil for accuracy: Mayor Knagg's motley army carried no guns when it broke the picket line, save half a dozen who toted their own side arms. Shotguns and deer rifles appeared on the scene later Thursday when the vanguard of Pontiac's threatened invasion straggled into town...
...most vital French news event of last week occurred in England, where Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon quietly asked of Parliament, and very shortly was granted, leave to add a billion dollars (?200,000,000) to the Exchange Equalization Fund of $750,000,000 with which John Bull has been operating in the world's money markets. He revealed that last March 30 the Fund possessed 26.674,000 oz. of fine gold, or $933,590,000 worth, compared to $2,584470,000 owned by the Bank of England and $11,000,000,000 worth...
...Terre Haute, Ind. in the 1870s one Jacob Baur ran a drugstore. When he needed soda water for his fountain, he would put some marble dust in a bottle, add sulphuric acid, capture the escaping carbon dioxide gas and pass it under pressure through water. In spare moments Jacob Baur worked on a machine to make carbonated water commercially. Soon he perfected the "coke" method now in use everywhere.* Raising $75,000, Druggist Baur went to Chicago, started the predecessor of Liquid Carbonic Corp. on Illinois Street just north of the Chicago River in 1888. For ten years he manufactured...