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Closer to home were graver distractions. Butter prices were skyhigh. New Yorkers at Buffalo, where butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hold Your Milk! | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

When graduates of those osteopathic schools tried to practice in Canada on the same footing as graduates of medical schools, Dean Frederick Etherington of Queens University Faculty of Medicine, Kingston, Ont., inspected four of the U. S. colleges of osteopathy. Last year he reported thus: "I shudder to envisage the result to women in childbirth if their care were placed in the hands of those who do not believe in and have not been thoroughly trained in the bacterial cause of infection. And what dire calamities would immediately and inevitably befall our great centres of population, if their supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Might & Main | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Ontario's Minister of Public Welfare David A. Croll, one of the Dionne Quintuplets' three official guardians, announced that their father, Oliva Dionne, had asked the Provincial Government for permission to open a hot dog & soda water booth opposite his daughters' nursery in Callander, Ont. (TIME, July 20 et ante). Said Minister Croll: "He is going to operate a stand and we are going to see to it that he has the necessary electric energy for refrigeration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 27, 1936 | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Born. To Oliva and Elzire Dionne; a son; in Callander, Ont. Name: Joseph Robert Telesphore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...Wood, who is president. Brother Winfield is manager of the Minneapolis branch. Brother Logan is vice president & general manager. Brother George is the industrial engineer, Brother Edward the experimental engineer. Brother Louis the chief engineer. Brother Philip is manager of the Canadian subsidiary across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ont. Brother Clinton, baby of the family, is manager of the Highland Park plant. And the Brothers Wood make money. Last week they announced that their business for the past twelve months ran 40% above the same previous period, that profits for the first half of 1936 exceeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wood Workers | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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