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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actidione was supposed to kill fungi (including mildews), the Michigan scientists sprayed them with a weak solution. In 48 hours the mildew disappeared. They made the solution still weaker and tried it on other afflicted beans. It worked like a charm in dilutions as great as one part per million (1 oz. to 7,497 gals. of water...
...Washington, D.C., he added, 100,000 people draw their drinking water from hydrants in the yard and use outdoor privies. There are almost 6,000 communities in the U.S. with no public water system, more than 9,000 without sewerage systems; in 8,300 communities, where some 70 million people live, there are no modern facilities for collecting and getting rid of garbage...
After nine months of investigation, the Securities & Exchange Commission shelved its attempt to revoke the securities trading license of Cyrus Eaton's Otis & Co. SEC had little choice. It had hoped to prove that Otis & Co. had fraudulently wriggled out of a deal to underwrite a $10 million issue of Kaiser-Frazer stock. But the only way it could do so.was by proving that Otis & Co. had put Lawyer James Masterson up to filing the suit against K-F which had enabled Otis to call off the deal. Last month, a U.S. district court ruled that Eaton...
...they controlled an empire of theatrical property worth $400 million. It crashed in the Depression...
...turn out their own shows only when there are not enough to go around. Now, with theaters scarce, they get rentals of 35% of gross receipts, and up. With all their houses occupied by hits or near-misses, Shubert theaters are taking in money at the rate of $60 million a year...