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Both Centaur and the Food & Drug Administration were stumped to find the guilty emetic. Company chemists analyzed a sample of Castoria, found only what was to be expected in a compound of alcohol, senna extract, bicarbonate of soda, peppermint, anise and flavoring. But when the chemists confidently took a swig...
After the war another member of the Pernod dynasty, Jules, whose firm was called Pernod Pere et Fils, concocted an aperitif that tasted much like absinthe but was less bitter, contained no wormwood. This he called Pernod Anise. In 1920 a M. André Hémard produced a something...
Meanwhile tea. anise, antimony, Perilla oil and galangal root, all imported from the Orient, rose in price. So did tungsten. Some 60% of this rare, whitish-grey metal comes from China. Technically known as wolfram, tungsten has a higher melting point than any other known metal (6,000° F...
An American arrives in Paris-presumably Gershwin himself, since he was there recently on the proceeds from his musical comedy tunes.* He leaves his hotel on a sunny spring morning, starts gaily down the Champs Elysees to the first walking theme. Taxis stop him first. Their horns amuse him, so...
An Inclusive Church: "The tragedy of Protestantism has been this, that any time anybody got a new idea in doctrine or ecclesiastical polity, he went out, if he had power enough, and founded a new denomination to represent it. ... A hundred and more denominations in this country, competing, overlapping, each...