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Arrests 64,986 Autos seized 7,137 Boats seized 353 Individuals prosecuted 51,945 Convictions 36,545 Fines $5,775,225 Dr. Doran said the U. S. had tried to eliminate poison from alcohols. Production of alcohol in 1927 was 184,323,016 gals., a decrease since 1926 of 17,948,653 gals. The Prohibition Bureau's 1928 policy will be to supervise U. S. alcohol production, restricting it to the known demand of legitimate industry...
...effect from several other aniline dyes tied chemically to antiseptics. The German doctor Paul Ehrlich imagined their theory in the 1880's, applied chemical knowledge and after 20 years invented salvarsan, specific against lues.* This is a yellowish powder composed of arsenic and hydrocarbons. It is a selective poison for spirochetes. By creating it, Dr. Ehrlich founded a new science...
...night of the murder a samovar of tea and a chocolate cake were placed on a small table. Dr. Lazovert, one of the conspirators, took some crystals of cyanide of potassium out of his pocket, crushed them, removed layers of the cake, sprinkled the poison, replaced the layers. The scene...
...often that a champion learns the fickleness of public fancy while the crown still rests upon his brow. Gene Tunney, the first fighter to attract attention to pugilism from the intelligentsia of the country, whoever they are, has seen the laurel turn to poison ivy. The very people who had been won by his admiration of Carlyle, who yelled "Awake, arise!" into their loudspeakers during the seventh round, have turned upon...
...Hamlet's paternal uncle poured poison into Hamlet's father's ear, and when the man was dead, persuaded the widow, his sister-in-law, to marry him. Thus he became king...