Word: drug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Henry Miller Jr., son of the late famed actor-manager Henry Miller, disinherited and adrift under the name of Gilbert Miller, afflicted with a gnawing drug habit; in Mexico City...
...Colonel Daniel MacCormack, Bostonian, hard working Director of Persian Internal Revenue, announced a standing offer by Persia to curtail her opium production 10% whenever the morphin, cocaine and heroin producing countries† should agree to a similar curtailment of their drug production. Said Colonel MacCormack: "We know that 5,000 tons of opium are produced annually throughout the world, while there is legitimate need for less than...
...local correspondent of the Associated Press explained why the animals were found apart in the cave: "Indications are that the fox, mortally wounded . . . drug himself near the mouth of the cave before dying...
Certain incongruities are also to be found in the happenings of the night. There was, for instance, H. S. Barker, a Somerville drug clerk, who in attempting to transfer from a bus at the Square, before taking 10 steps, was hit on the head and piled into the wagon with the students. Baker, it is said, is "married and has two children...
...Singapore, Penang and Malacca, news came last week that the local British administration derives some ?2,500,000 ($12,150,000) annually from opium revenues. Opium, called locally chandu, was reported on sale at $8 an ounce, in "smoke parlors" operated by the government, whereas the government imports tin drug from China for less than $1 an ounce. During 1925 almost $300 000 was spent by the government in building new and more luxurious "smoke parlors" which are now reported in full blast. The natives, accustomed to chandu, apparently feel no more than a slight "head" on the day following...