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During the three months since December 6, 1933, that memorable day when prohibition went out of effect, records of more than 200 sales to Harvard students have been kept and nearly half of the customers gratified their thirst with the amber product of the Bonnie Banks Doon. Of the 200 purchasers, 97 chose cotch whiskey and some of the more popular brands that have been finding flavor with the students are "Stoddard's", "Johnny Walker," "Glen Finnan," and McNair's", all testifying by their names to genuine Gaclic ancestry...
...Dean Acheson was quietly running the Treasury. Hardmoney-men Sprague and George Leslie Harrison were in London tentatively arranging to stabilize the dollar. On June 29 Mr. Morgenthau sped to Campobello Island, was on the launch with Mrs. Roosevelt to greet the President as he sailed on the Amber jack II. On July 1, the President and Mr. Morgenthau boarded the cruiser Indianapolis and steamed southward. Two days later the cruiser's wireless ticked out the President's message: 1) that the U. S. would not consent to stabilize the dollar until prices had been raised higher...
...Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain...
...Fifth Avenue street lights, turned amber for the holiday, winked on as darkness fell. The crowds grew thicker. The ticker-tape and torn paper banked in heaps against the curbs. Governor Lehman went off to make a speech. The other reviewers ordered sandwiches and coffee. By this time the parade should have ended, but thousands were yet to come. George Gordon Battle led the lawyers. Life insurance people, office furniture brokers, telegraph and telephone employes with linemen in truck towers followed. The brewers marched past diabolically illuminated by red flares...
Another product made from maleic acid is Succinic Acid, which occurs naturally in amber. A compound of succinic acid,, succinyl-chlorimide, has been found to be a thoroughgoing purifier of water. A six-milligram speck of succinyl-chlorimide, reported Dr. Downs, disinfects a canteen of water in a few minutes...