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Cordial shops sell nonalcoholic vermouth and cordials. They also sell the "imported" kind. Or they will sell you nonalcoholic vermouth and a pint of alcohol and tell you how to mix them. Some of them take orders for "Canadian" beer, to be delivered by the case. Whiskeys are frankly of local manufacture. Said a cordial shop clerk last week: "You can't get any better whiskey than this [King George] whiskey. The man that made this whiskey has been making whiskey ever since Prohibition...
Gasoline will be taxed 4¢ more a gallon. All entertainment taxes are raised to 16?%. Tobacco will be taxed 1¢ more an ounce, beer 2¢ more a pint...
...visitors from the city. City health authorities opened stations to take blood from convalescents from the disease. Convalescent blood serum is a remedy if used early enough. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "an aspirant for the presidency" in 1932, who was stricken by the disease in middle life, gave a pint of his blood. He did likewise...
...What decimal part of 2 bushels, 3 pecks and 4 quarts is 1 bushel, 3 pecks, 1 quart and 1 pint...
...were pleased. For in every doctor's career there are Peter Grimeses. At the time of the man's amputation, he needed blood transfusions. His relatives refused blood or money for blood. Dr. Jerger persuaded internes to donate blood. He paid them $75 of his own money for each pint of blood. Peter Grimes, healed, got some $20,000 as damages, bought himself a motor car, shipped it to Greece where for a time he lived luxuriously. Then back to Chicago. The jury last week did not pity him for the leg he lacked. They gave Dr. Jerger a judgment...