Word: nones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that struggle, cooperation between the U.S. and Britain is "the linchpin of the structure," said Monty. "None of us can stand alone and none are doing so today ... In Western Europe, the eyes and thoughts of everyone are ever turning westward . . . They look to the English-speaking nations and wonder if they can count on their help: definitely. We must not let them have any doubts...
...public spends $100 million on laxatives-the biggest seller, after vitamins, in the drug field. Most of the laxatives people buy and take are intestine-irritating chemicals which many doctors denounce: cascara, aloes, resins, castor oil, phenolphthalein and salts. Such concoctions often aggravate digestive trouble, or start trouble if none exists...
...None of the witnesses, said he, could have taken a picture. They had been gone over by the jail's $7,000 "inspectoscope," and with its X-ray beam it would have either detected the hidden camera or, at least, fogged its film. (City Room gossip was that Photographer Joe Migon had sneaked a tiny camera in his shoe past the machine.) Fordney charged that the man had been painted in the chair and pointed out "discrepancies" between the actual execution and the picture. Where there had been a dark electrode on Morelli's right leg, the heavily...
Baffled Experts. Until a year ago, the U.S. oil industry's geologists and geophysicists, who had long since reduced oil prospecting to a science, had been completely fooled by Scurry County. None of their blasts and echo-measurements had shown the existence of its oil-laden limestone reef some 6,500 ft. down. Humble Oil & Refining Co., biggest oil leaseholder on the continent, had once held leases all over Scurry, but had let most of them lapse. Even the first wells drilled in what later proved to be the heart of the pool did not turn out well...
Actually, Taylor owned two patents covering certain methods of using advertising matter on waxed-paper bands, said FTC, but "none of the licensees . . . have ever used [Taylor's] methods." In short, the manufacturers who paid royalties to Taylor "were unfamiliar with the nature of the patents...