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...recognition of valiant work in recovering the Massachusetts Sacred Cod, Major Charles R. Apted '06, Superintendent of Caretakers, has been advanced to the rank of Colonel in the Yard Police. Colonel Apted's single-handed recovery of the emblem, after days of slenthing through the perilous byways of Boston and Cambridge, came after both city and state police had been baffled at every turn...
...days, every man garners to himself all manner of sticks and stones to remind him of great days passed and glories hoped for. There are totems for Indians, Ikons for Russians, aviators for Prussians, and St. George for England. And for Boston, a whittled pieces of pine--the sacred cod...
...Sacred) Owl, the (Sacred) Ibis, and other stuffed nonsense. Weary of swinging in the winds of State House oratory, the grand old effigy could have taken its leave, alone and in honor. It deserved better than to disappear with a zoo-full of mildewed bridge-prizes. For the sacred cod, aloof and unsullied, is no kin to these doubtful deities, these gods brought down to the market-place...
Home of the cod & the bean, of Cabots & Lowells, Boston is also the home of the "open-end" management trust, a trust which continually sells its shares to the public but which also stands ready at all times to repurchase them at slightly below liquidating value. During the last three years boom-time trusts have often sold as much as 50% of their liquidating value. As a member of Massachusetts Investors' advisory board, Mr. Adams will be able to boast that not only was his the first "open-end" trust but also that in the last few years...
...Vitamin D in milk exposed to its irradiation as Wisconsin's Professor Harry Steenbock ; has demonstrated. In operation 3,000 quarts of milk flow in a thin sheet down the inner walls of the cylinder, acquiring Vitamin D in about the same strength as occurs naturally in good cod liver oil. National Carbon Co. of Cleveland and Creamery Package Co. of Chicago worked with the Research Foundation to develop the irradiator. The Foundation is to commercialize it, license its use to dairies, just as it licenses Professor Steenbock's irradiation methods to drug and food manufacturers. The importance...