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...close relative of the alcohol used to keep motorcar radiators from freezing, never before put to this purpose. Whether diethylene glycol is poisonous by itself or in this solution was not made clear last week. The one indisputable fact was that S. E. Massengill Co. made up several 80-gal. batches of sulfanilamide solution. This was labeled an elixir, a technical pharmacological term for a drug sweetened and dissolved in alcohol, and shipped to 375 retailers. The retailers, one as far away as Puerto Rico, dispensed this "elixir" with and without prescriptions, in reddish brown flasks whose yellow labels read...
...under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio Alger career (see p. 63). Made up as coupé, roadster or truck, the Bantam "60" is 120 in. overall, has four cylinders, is claimed to get 60 mi. per gal. of gas, 60,000 mi. per set of tires, 60 m.p.h. speed. Production begins this month, is scheduled for 10,000 for the coming year, 60% trucks, 40% passenger models...
...eggs; refused a pile of Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes offered by William Herman Mylander, Washington representative of the Paul Block paper, just in case Mr. Justice Black had not read the expose of his Klan activities in the paper of their origin; failed to recognize in spite of his 10 gal. hat Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle who had written the series; and retired to break his fast with Editor Max Lerner of the Nation, which had just received a demand for retraction from Publisher Block's attorney because it had accused Mr. Block of "gum-shoeing...
...corn from $1.58 to $1.21 per bu. ; cotton from 15¼? to 8½? per lb.; rubber from 27? to 17¼ per lb.; steel scrap from $23.50 to $18 per ton; cocoa from 13? to 7? per lb.; turpentine from 50½? to 30½? per gal...
...deposits of Natrona, Pa., to manufacture alkaline salts of soda. Its process was a failure. Oil found on its land helped to keep it alive for a few years-it became the first company to export refined petroleum from the U. S.-500 bbl. to London at 5? a gal. But "Salt" has paid dividends every year since 1863, and last week was able to announce the most profitable year in its history: earnings of $11.79 a share on 150,000 shares of stock...