Word: maccormack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opium. Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack of Boston, technical adviser to the Persian government, urged the U. S., France, Germany, Japan, other drug manufacturing countries, to follow Persia in stemming the flow of poppy juice. He said that Persia, following the lead of India, had agreed to reduce the manufacture of opium 10% annually, which, he said, represented a real economic sacrifice since the export of the drug constituted 20% of the export trade and 10% of the government's revenue. No action was taken...
...Colonel Daniel MacCormack, Bostonian, hard working Director of Persian Internal Revenue, announced a standing offer by Persia to curtail her opium production 10% whenever the morphin, cocaine and heroin producing countries† should agree to a similar curtailment of their drug production. Said Colonel MacCormack: "We know that 5,000 tons of opium are produced annually throughout the world, while there is legitimate need for less than...