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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition poll conducted by the Literary Digest, opinion-collecting weekly, grew top heavy last week with Wet votes. More than two million ballots were tabulated as follows...
With not a vote visibly changed the House Judiciary Committee last week wound up its Wet-&-Dry hearings. Its members had patiently heard in 16 days almost one million words from 60 Wet, 65 Dry witnesses. Wets will be given a brief rebuttal period, with the Drys making an even briefer surrebuttal. The evidence, which has cost the U. S. $5,000 to take down and print, leaves the Wets still wet, the Drys still dry. As everyone knew when the hearings began in February, no changes in the law will be recommended by the committee...
Musical-EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, SONS O'" GUNS, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN...
Vegetable oils occurring in cottonseed, linseed, copra, peanuts, are held in microscopic cells. About these cells there is a hard crust, largely cellulose, which must be cracked to release the oil. Of the three commercial methods, which produce some seven million tons of oil per year, the most used is the pressure method...
...bull on Chicago is Robert Arthur Wood, president of the Exchange. His two sons are 17 and 15 years old, yet he confidently predicts : "By the time my sons are old enough to be Exchange members (21 years), seats will be selling for a quarter of a million each. Such a rise would be less than that which has already occurred." President Wood is 43, is the only man to be a three-time president of the Chicago Exchange. He entered the bond business in 1915 after an unsuccessful attempt at farming in Washington, bought his seat three years later...