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...referee is tenable only if all classes become socially and economically minded. "An Ideal Diet cannot yet be defined," observed Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins speaking as a professional biochemist, because "factors still unknown contribute to normal nutrition." Garbaged Farm Lands. To provide more arable land for England, Francis Maurice Gustavus Du-Plat-Taylor, dock and reclamation engineer, urged that London's house refuse and sludge from sewage disposal plants be deposited upon marsh and mud lands. London sludge, which now is hauled out to sea, amounts to three million tons yearly. House refuse reaches 1,500,000 tons yearly...
...trapped bull, they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others long 9,000,000 bushels of corn engineered a "corner" in violation...
Louis Franklin Swift, 71, eldest surviving son of Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift, resigned his directorship in Swift 8 Co. Two years ago he was succeeded as president of the company by his brother Gustavus Franklin Swift...
Died. Rev. Luther Gustavus Barrett, 94, oldest Harvard College graduate.† onetime (1894-1911) president of Jackson College (Jackson, Miss.); in Melrose...
...Charleston, W. Va., Governor William Gustavus Conley opened the door of the Executive Mansion's furnace, was greeted by a deafening explosion, burned about the face and arms by a jet of flame, struck down by the flying 100-lb. door...