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...Legislature had laid a tax of 1? per cwt. on milk, half the proceeds to go for an advertising campaign designed to up milk consumption. The 1934 campaign, conducted by the State Department of Health, was a model of dignified propriety, cost $400,000, upped milk consumption not a quart. Last July the job was turned over to the State Department of Agriculture & Markets, which promptly hired a professional advertising agency to pep things...
...Rebellion) brought freedom to tall, blue-black Daniel Joseph Jenkins, born a slave in 1861 and soon orphaned. Turned off a plantation near Charleston, S. C., he said: "I took God for my guide. I got a job on a farm and got two pounds of meat and a quart of black molasses a week to live on." One day he came upon half a dozen shoeless, shivering pickaninnies huddled by a railroad track. He gave them his last dollar...
...minutes, took the glass tube in his mouth, exhaled one-tenth pint of air. Then he stuck his tongue into the tube to cork it, took a breath, exhaled again into the apparatus. This procedure he repeated until the gas meter indicated that he had breathed and exhaled five quarts of air. Of the one-twentieth of an ounce of garlic which Dr. Haggard had chewed and swallowed, every quart of air he exhaled carried away only one ten-millionth of an ounce of garlic oil (diallyl disulfide...
...hours later Dr. Haggard again breathed into the machine, which showed that each quart of his breath then contained one two-hundred-millionth of an ounce of garlic oil. This amount "was easily detected by the sense of smell," declared Drs. Haggard and Greenberg last fortnight when they announced the results of their investigation in the American Medical Association's Journal...
Four hours after eating a big slice of "an ordinary culinary onion of domestic growth, of medium size and fairly pungent.'' every quart of Dr. Haggard's breath contained one-billionth of an ounce of onion oil (allyl propyl disulfide). "The odor was still detectable by the sense of smell...