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...consulting chemist named Howard W. Ambruster. He specializes in arsenic and arsenical preparations for insect control. Three years ago he heard that U. S. ergot preparations were adulterated. He believed the situation was opportune for him to make money by importing clean Spanish ergot. He bought 70,000 Ib.?virtually a "corner" of the supply at that time?for $1.60 to $1.70 per Ib. The U. S. market price for ergot was then $1.15. He offered manufacturing druggists his ergot at $1.50. None would buy. Although later he sold small quantities he still has practically all his 1927 ergot...
Procter & Gamble today operates seven factories: Ivorydale, Ohio; Dallas, Tex.; Macon, Ga.; Port Ivory, Staten Island, X. Y.; St. Louis, Mo.; Hamilton, Ontario; Kansas City, Kan. Largest factory is in Ivorydale, near Cincinnati; the new Baltimore plant, whose three-storied boilers can boil 9,000,000 Ib. of soap (300 carloads) at one time, is intended to guide ventures in the East and Southeast. Similar to this factory is a now-being-planned $5.000,000 plant at Long Beach, Calif...
Chief agitator for the new Red hunt was New York's big (6 ft. 4 in.; 210 Ib.) Congressman Hamilton Fish, onetime Harvard footballer. Loudly he warned the House that Communists were seizing U. S. schools, were plotting to overthrow the Government. He blamed the Third International for labor troubles in the textile industry of the South. He cited the charges of Soviet propaganda made against Amtorg Trading Corp. by New York City's Police Commissioner Whalen (TIME, May 12), now retired. He demanded the immediate deportation to Russia of all alien Communists, seriously recommended that U. S. citizens favoring...
...this they differ with the Royal Geographical Society, which ranks K2 (Godwin-Austen)' second with its 28,250 ft., Kanchenjunga third. To negotiate this frigid, wind-beaten giant they will establish six camps spaced along the peak's last 10,000 ft. Husky Sherpas porters will strap 68 Ib. packs on their broad shoulders, grease their faces to ward off the erosive wind, fight their way upward through the rare air a few feet at a time over the ice steps cut for them...
Paul Whiteman weighs 248 Ib. His father was director of music in the Denver public schools, his mother sang in a Den ver choir. He got his start in Santa Barbara playing the violin and wearing a funny hat. After a tour of Africa with a string quartet, he worked in Tait's restaurant in San Francisco, was fired for not knowing jazz. He started a band of his own, borrowed money enough to take his men east where he got a job in the Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City. His pianist, Ferdie Grofe, a brilliant technical musician, helped...