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...they agreed, there was no need to call in a coroner-it was dead beyond doubt; there was no need to summon an undertaker-it was buried too deeply. If anything was dead, politicians declared, then surely the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution-the Child Labor Amend-ment-was dead, ratified by 4 states, rejected...
Assets include real estate valued at $112,030,755, machinery and equip- ment at $115,089,863, cash (including notes, accounts receivable, securities' patent rights, etc.) at $300,275,847, goodwill at $20,517,985 and deferred charges at $1,455,082, or a total for assets of $644,624,468 (as against $568,101,639 a year...
...Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, have worked with poisons-salts, acids, fats, with blue canisters of strange mineral, with bottles of green, fatal syrup. They sought that latter-day elixir, a fluid deadly to germs, harmless to man, a perfect antiseptic. Last week, came the announce- ment that they had found and tested such a germicide-hexylresorcinol, 50 times as powerful as carbolic acid...
...debt which we incurred during the American Revolution. As a matter of fact, the United States paid every dollar of the debt incurred at that time. I have the statement of the facts and figures furnished me by the Treasury Department, where the records are, disclosing a full settle- ment and a higher rate of interest than we are now proposing...
...chief witness for the Govern-ment is Elias H. Mortimer, who tes- tified last year before the Senate investigating committee. He testified that he entered into an agreement with Contractor Thompson and an associate (one Black, now dead) to procure hospital contracts for them in consideration of 35% of the profits that they should make. He also declared that he had made an agreement with Mr. Forbes for an equal division of these proceeds between the two of them. He told of giving Mr. Forbes various sums at several times, paying Forbes' traveling expenses on a trip...