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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. is the U. S. branch of 112-year-old J. G. B. Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen...
...that the portraits on the new Edward VIII stamps of which TIME [Sept. 14] says "the new stamps have simple, modernistic and almost photographic profile views of Edward VIII which really look like him" have actually been reproduced from a recent photograph of the Sovereign by Hugh Cecil Portraits, Ltd. of London, England...
Trevor E. Hodges, Ltd...
...hydrocarbons like gasoline can be distilled off, as in the some-what similar process of "cracking" petro- leum. Germany produced about 300,000 tons of motor fuel by coal-hydrogenation last year; 500.000 tons is a likely figure for this year. Last year England's Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. completed a hydrogenation plant of 150,000 tons annual capacity. In the U. S., which produces oceans of oil, the commercial process has not got under...
...population of 255, there was last week a great hullabaloo. Eleven miles beyond Arden two prospectors named Newton and Alexander had staked gold claims. Ore from these diggings, assayed by the Canadian Mines Department, was reported to contain $200 to $600 of gold per ton. Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd., had bought the claims and was about to start drilling while dozens of mining engineers, hundreds of prospectors were stalking Arden's once placid streets. Again Depression, which steeps most men in gloom and poverty, was demonstrating its power of bringing hope and sometimes wealth to those...