Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...owned, market Drug, Inc.'s Rexall products. For Drug Inc. is a holding company for the United Drug Co. of Louis Kroh Liggett, combined with the onetime Sterling Products Co. (Feb. 1928) into the present drug chain which serves 25% of the U. S. public plus many a Canadian and Englishman...
...Through 36 Liggett Canadian stores and the controlled Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., with 800 English stores...
Hard words wash across the Canadian border into the U. S. in the wake of hard liquor. Last week there was a recrudescence of the argument about the two countries' Prohibition responsibilities. At Ottawa William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue whose blunt speaking on the same subject has riled U. S. officials before (TIME, June 3), lectured the Washington government on ways and means of checking rum-smuggling. Treasury officials in Washington snorted indignantly. Two facts are basic in this international dispute: 1) Canada grants clearance of liquor cargoes for the U. S. on excise...
...effective check on their own boats and their own people engaged in the violation of their own law. If they would follow the Canadian practice [of clearances] they would have a means of control which would in a large measure provide the remedy for the conditions of which they complain." Assistant Secretary Lowman in Washington failed to see it that way. Said he: "It makes no difference what [clearance] regulations you have, because bootleggers will not register their vessels in any event. They are just as willing to ignore the navigation laws as they are the prohibition and customs laws...
...Afrikaans, a modification of Dutch. They have a South African Association for the Advancement of Science. That Association last week began a fortnight's entertain-ment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Capetown, Johannesburg, Pretoria. If the British Association met in the Dominion of Canada, Canadian and U. S. newspapers would tersely refer to it as the B.A.A.S.. or "British Ass." South African papers last week avoided abbreviation, for a great part of the population there is Dutch and still hate their British conquerors and masters. In their tongue B.A.A.S. would spell revolting baas, "master...