Word: holtz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacle, however, impressed the delegates so much as the fact that almost unanimously music merchants announced their best business in seven years. President Fred A. Holtz of the National Association of Band Instrument Manufacturers calculated that more than 2,000,000 children now play in school bands. Accordion makers reported a record turnover of 120,000 instruments in the last twelvemonth. But pianomen, reporting that the sales of 49,595 pianos through June were 33% higher than for the corresponding period last year, were most optimistic. They expected to sell 80,000 more by the end of the year...
Most forceful speaker advocating repeal of the law in the House was Jackson Holtz of Boston, who answered fears of the proponents by declaring that "the cry of Communism was a hysteria whipped up by a newspaper publisher." Backing him up. Ralph V. Clampit echoed President Conant's stand by pointing out that the spirit of allegiance to the United States must be voluntary if we were to have patriotism...
...great discovery he soon forgot to wonder. What Howerth thought he was after, and then thought he had, was the creation of organic life from inorganic matter. When his invention turned out to be a deadly virus that killed his only friend, he was horrified. But Nicholas Holtz was pleased, chalked up another long shot turned asset...
...When Holtz had Howerth's laboratory burned down to get rid of a corpse that might be even uglier if found, Howerth risked his life to save his deadly but still beloved serum, and was blinded for his pains. When a sudden and fatal epidemic broke out in one of Holtz's destitute mining towns, the few who knew what Howerth had been up to began to suspect that Holtz had taken over the experiment. While Howerth and his assistants worked feverishly to find an antivirus for the plague, Holtz wiped out his human liabilities by the thousand...
Howerth finally conquered the monster he had created, and diabolic old Nicholas Holtz was at last cornered by a kitten. But long before this ingenious horror story lays out its final cadaver, many a germ-haunted reader will be thinking seriously of gargling...