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...been unable to prove that her heirloom painting was a Leonardo, or that Sir Joseph was guilty of slander when he pronounced it only a graceless copy of Leonardo's La Belle Ferroniére in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). Therefore she could not extract $500,000 damages from Sir Joseph. He, on the other hand, had failed to impress the jury with his opinions. Therefore he could not feel the pride appropriate to an international art tycoon...
Internal Medicine. Liver and liver extract established for the treatment, if not absolute cure, of pernicious anemia; and their value against anemias caused by kidney disease, cancer. Polyvalent serum against pneumonia. Improved technique for oxygen treatment of pneumonia...
...represented, from the milk posset receipt of Sir Walter Raleigh to information for making malt liquor at home, so that any persons might have it "strong, fine, and aged, at their own Discretion" from a book "In Praise of Drunkenness" to such anti-alcoholic tracts as the following extract, concerned with naval morals...
...TIME erroneously referred to Oilman Sinclair's Salt Creek contract, which was voided last fortnight, as "a contract to extract oil from U. S. property on a royalty basis" (TIME, Oct. 29). Such a contract would be an operation lease. The Salt Creek field was leased to other operators, not to Sinclair. Lessees extract oil and pay the U. S. royalties of oil or cash. Sinclair's contract was to buy royalty oil from the U. S. at certain prices, with an option to renew the contract if he found the prices profitable. The voiding of Sinclair...
...rubber users, tiremakers, were in a public panic. They pressed a campaign of conservation. They began to "reclaim" used rubber. They started a world-wide search for plantations where the U. S. might produce its own supply. They commissioned Thomas Alva Edison to study how to extract rubber from such plants as milkweed. And, in 1926, tiremakers formed the Rubber Pool to buy a great supply at between 35 and 41? a pound...