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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I note that Mr. J. H. Landers of Temple, Tex., has called your hand about the height of skyscrapers; reminded you that the omission of the Amicable Building at Waco, Tex., was a grave one. Mr. Landers might have related an amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It is told that a gentleman from Shreveport or Tulsa (the old chronicles are not explicit) was made acquainted with a Waconian. "So you're from Waco, are you?" he drawled. "Yes suh, thass right," agreed the Waconian. "And may I ask, suh. what floor do you live on?" wisecracked...
Cyclopropane Anesthetic, a new gas prepared by Philadelphia's G. H. W. Lucas and Toronto's Velyien Ewart Henderson acts similarly to nitrous oxide (laughing gas) but has more satisfactory after effects. Recovery is rapid. The patient does not struggle. Respiration remains normal, the blood pressure almost...
...meat broths, black tea, water. They lived as ordinary city dwellers, except that they carefully walked an hour or so each day and occasionally ran about two and one-half miles. Their health remained excellent in all ways, leading New York's Eugene Floyd Du Bois, W. S. McClellan, H. J. Spencer and E. A. Falk, who studied them, to conclude that "in general white men, after they have become accustomed to the omission of other foods from their diet, may subsist on an exclusive meat diet in a temperate climate without damage to health or efficiency...
...brother Frederick. Since the Morrows were known to be interested in a number of food products, Wall Street began to talk of a new food products combination, perhaps rivaling the recent Morgan merger (Standard Brands). Last week, confirming that guess, four companies ? Toddy Corp. (chocolate malted milk), Edward H. Jacob (canned mushrooms), Kitchen Bouquet (liquid flavoring extracts), Fould Milling (macaroni) ? united in Grocery Store Products Inc., and the name of George Kenan Morrow again figured prominently on the board of directors...
...stores, washing powder, soap, shoe polish, honey, macaroni, mayonnaise, peanut butter, margarine, pickles, flour, meat, sugar?may be added to the roster of famed self-made business brothers: the two Brothers Behn (Col. Sosthenes and Hernand) masters of I. T. & T.; the two Brothers Giannini (Amadeo Peter and Attilio H.) bankers; the two Brothers Rentschler (Frederick B. and Gordon Sohn) in aviation and aviation financing; the three brothers Starrett (Paul, William Aiken, Ralph) and the two Brothers Chanin (Irwin S. and Henry I.), builders all; the two Brothers Van Sweringen (Mantis James and Oris Paxton). railroaders; the seven Brothers Fisher...