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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of this decision, the first of its kind by an appellate court, was to transfer to the U. S. the burden of proving, not that home-made wine contains more than .5% alcohol but that it contains enough alcohol to make a person drunk and hence is outside the "non-intoxicating" clause of the Volstead Act and therefore illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Grape | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Liver Oil in small doses is more salutary than in massive doses, which may even be harmful. Pure cod liver oil is better than emulsions. Irradiating oil with ultraviolet light helps its effect.?Sweden's Erik Agduhr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power and hull-size went into effect eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Bank Boating | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Oats. After a few years he set up as a broker (Morrow & Co.) in the New York Produce and Sugar Exchanges. He took a hand in Gold Dust Corp. of which he is now chairman. He was invited to reorganize American Cotton Oil Co. and did so with such effect that in about five years the value of the company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases. Today George K. Morrow. 55, keen-eyed, grey, sturdy, has a home on Long Island, golfs week-endly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two Morrows | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...person doing business with a chain bank does business with that particular bank alone. His deposits are secured by its assets alone. But a person doing business with a branch bank is in effect doing business with all branches, and his deposits are secured by their combined assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Northwest Wind | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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