Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of articles entitled: "How I was a Spy in the American Navy for the Japanese Government." Price: $20,000. Condition: that he be given 72 hours head start to catch the Hindenburg for Germany. Newshawk Lewis promptly notified Chief William D. Puleston of Naval Intelligence. Next he demanded proof of "Dodo's" relations with the Japanese. Farnsworth called up Commander Yamaguchi in Lewis' presence, told him he needed money at once. A meeting place was arranged, and Farnsworth tried to persuade Lewis to masquerade as a cabdriver, accompany him. Lewis refused, but so anxious was Farnsworth...
Professor Marion Arthur Blankenhorn and Dr. Calvus Elton Richards, both of Cincinnati's General Hospital, were convinced that, when eaten, the essential oils of onion and garlic pass into the blood, are aerated into the lungs and from there breathed out. In proof, they offered the results of an experiment on a patient whose mouth was blocked off from his stomach by a cancer of the esophagus, who could receive nourishment only through a tube in the abdominal wall. Through this tube the experimenters introduced garlic soup. Three hours later the patient's breath began to smell, continued...
...liquor business, overproduction really means not just overproduction but more overproduction than seems advisable. From Repeal to June 30, 1934, total U. S. production of whiskey was 62,352,666 proof gal. while only 18,875,964 gal. were consumed. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935, production was 149,112,923 gal., consumption 50,780,940 gal. In the six months ending December 31, 1935, production was 96,363,859, consumption 36,242,929. Any other industry which deliberately produced three times as much as it sold-and went on doing it for two and a half years...
...detectives, announced that a battery of scientists was being assembled to make, probably next month, an exhaustive examination of Peter Ney's bones and dust. Present will be Dr. J. Edward Smoot, who as a boy saw Peter Ney exhumed in 1887, later gathered what he considered convincing proof of the Marshal's escape to the U. S., put it in a book called Marshal Ney Before and After Execution. The historical detectives centre their hopes on finding a silver plate, a bullet-nicked ankle bone. Marshal Ney had a silver trepan in his skull, a bullet wound...
...giving everything I have, Boss, except the talent, personality, pep, or whatever it was that put me in the money as Little Elsie, and kept me there for 30 years. . , . Maybe G. H. Q. has been testing me. Wanting proof that no matter how high a command He bestowed upon me, I would still listen to orders. . . . This morning, Boss, I received my Community Chest notification and was sneering at its puniness when I got a snappy order. It's this: the end of summer will see an auction...