Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minor Matters. On several minor points the Commission was firm and explicit, 1) Unlimited prescription of liquor by physicians. 2) Fixing the alcoholic content of cider and fruit juices now outside the law until proved "intoxicating in fact." 3) A 60% increase in the number of Dry agents, investigators, et al. 4) Legal access to wholesale and retail houses handling denatured alcohol products to check diversion. 5) Elimination of independent denaturing plants. 6) No extension of the Federal Search & Seizure...
...spur the land to action, to preserve all the people's moneys by getting some of the people to meet the emergency through their accustomed emergency organization, the President asked the Messrs. Coolidge, Smith, Davis, Young et al. to compose a Red Cross drive committee. All the 57 eminent citizens accepted. Mr. Coolidge was named the committee's head...
Died. Alfred Watterson McCann, 52, pure food expert, author (Starving America, God-or Gorilla, The Science of Keeping Young, et al.);of heart disease, shortly after broadcasting a pure food lecture; in Manhattan...
Died. Professor Allen Johnson, 60, historian, editor since 1926 of the Dictionary of American Biography, onetime (1910-26) Lamed Professor of American History at Yale, editor (1918-21) of Chronicles of America, author of many a historical work (Stephen A. Douglas, Union and Democracy, Jefferson and His Colleagues, et al.); of shock after being struck by an automobile; in Washington...
...left when other refining processes in use had finished. Among the operating companies were Standard of California and Shell Union; the royalties they had to pay were tremendous. So a holding company for them, called United Gasoline Co., negotiated to buy Universal Oil Products for $22,249.999. Halle, Dubbs, et al and most of a modern staff of 350 go with it. Mrs. Armour and they retain some stock interest in it and in its huge dividends, so that Mr. Halle says: "$22,000,000 does not tell the whole story of what we all made of it." Last week...