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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Death ceased fingering the Mohawk-Valley last week seven women, 25 men, all drinkers of rubbing alcohol and radiator anti-freeze compound, were done...
Like many another explosive, nitramon contains ammonium nitrate. It also contains a stable carbon compound (formula secret) which only reluctantly releases its carbon to combine with the nitrate's oxygen. Once detonated, however, nitramon explodes with 40% more force than TNT. It costs less than some grades of dynamite. The company claims that it is impervious to cold, works under water, should make quarry blasting and coal vein stripping completely safe up to the moment of "shooting." Politically timely was the assurance that nitramon's value is strictly limited to peacetime...
...Planar-wheel suspension" for greater riding ease, compound hydraulic brakes and steel bodies "reinforced by steel" (to go the others one better) for safety, and "skyway silhouette" with "slim, silvery radiators, intriguing new hood louvers, and gull's wing fenders" for improved body lines-these are the contributions Studebaker has made this year to their models and to the advertising jargon...
...computed as with interest to that date, appears to be too much of a burden for the financial resources of the government to bear. The government, in paying the bonus now, would be deprived of the use of those funds for ten years, during which time the compound interest would amount to a most appreciable figure. Mr. Roosevelt does not subscribe to the veterans' ploa that 2,000,000,000 dollars released in bonuses now would help recovery enough to warrant its release. Such prudence seems very much like a contradiction in terms to him who looks with jaundiced...
...William Frederick Koch of Detroit announced in 1919 that he had invented ''a synthetic chemical compound of very definite molecular arrangement" which cured cancer. He refused to describe the stuff. Doctors branded him a quack. People whom he claimed to have cured, doctors argued, either never had cancer or, as occasionally happens, recovered spontaneously. Dr. Koch argued that his critics were hostile because his chemical would curtail their profitable cancer business. He proceeded to establish a reputation among laymen, one of whom was Mr. Anderson, onetime railroader. Wartime civilian recruiter for the Army, onetime propagandizer for the Veterans...