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...lemon oil from a stoppered flask were pumped up the nostrils, directly against the ends of the olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden air was necessary to produce an impression. For coffee it was eight to nine cubic centimetres, for lemon oil six to eight. These quantities he labeled "MIO"-minimum identified odor...
...Government had charged, and the defense freely admitted, that from 1929 to 1933 "Abe" Shushan received and failed to report for tax purposes more than $400,000, largely through a 2?-per-cubic-yard tribute which he, as president of the New Orleans Levee Board, exacted from dredging contractors. The defense maintained that these payments were simply political contributions which passed through Shushan's hands as a collector for the Long machine. The Government traced large sums of Defendant Shushan's "political" income to personal expenditures, while the defense could trace only $44,000 to the Long treasury...
...most charmful smile. Taken out twelve miles through the jungle to see the new $13,000,000 Madden Dam on the Chagres River, completed since Mr. Roosevelt's westward passage across the Isthmus last year and calculated to supplement the Canal's water supply by 22 billion cubic feet, he graciously remarked: "When you compare the two, you wouldn't believe that Boulder is so much bigger than this. It is about three times as high, but it doesn't look it." And when President Harmodio Arias, whom President Roosevelt had just dubbed "the Canal Zone...
...area surveyed in the catalogue, while containing 7,889 galaxies, each of which fills as much as 5,000,000,000,000 cubic light years, covers somewhat less than one percent of the total...
Prosecutor Woodcock opened his case before the jury of eleven white businessmen and a Negro dentist by charging that Defendant Shushan had exacted personal tribute of 2? per cubic yard from the contractors who dredged the fill for his airport and seawalls. When the quiet, incisive prosecutor twice referred to these payments as "graft," Counsel Wilkinson leaped up, demanded a mistrial. He was overruled. On the stand a string of dredging company officials supported and elaborated the Government's charge, pieced together a devious tale of threats and intimidation, of large cash sums passed quietly to Shushan...