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...nature of those emanations is unknown. Sir William thinks that they are chemical individuals, that "their physiological activity must be prodigious, equaling or even exceeding that of snake venom. . . . Of what use is this power? Why can it so influence its fellow vegetables? In that lies the puzzle." Perhaps the emanations explain what warehousers of apples have known for a long time, "that there is a kind of communal life, a herd quality, in apples when stored together. They tend to and. indeed, they do ripen at much the same rate...
...much money the News paid to Publisher Ames last week was not revealed. But, with the exception of Post employes thrown out of work, all affected by the deal were well pleased. The Post had 48,000 circulation when "Snake" Ames acquired it. Its advertising lineage for the month previous was 365,000. By last September circulation had shrunk to 37,000, lineage to 125,000. More than half the personnel was union labor whose salaries could not be cut more than 10%. Moreover, the costly A. P. franchise had to be maintained...
There were other satisfying incidents. The News, which already had an A. P. franchise, sold the Post's membership to Hearst's evening American. It sold the lease on the Post building on North La Salle Street to "Snake's" Brother John Dawes Ames who publishes the Journal of Commerce in a ramshackle plant on East Grand Avenue. Also it was supposed that Brother John's paper would inherit the Post's legal advertising business which the News does not want as the rate...
Finally, "Snake" Ames got a good-salaried job as assistant to Publisher Knox. Said Colonel Knox: "I'll give him plenty of jobs. He's a damned smart young fellow...
...sales offices, Booth has not earned much money lately. In 1920 it paid its last preferred dividend; during its last reported fiscal year ending May 2, 1931, it lost $1,204,000. President of the company until he died by his own hand last year was Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, publisher of Chicago's Journal of Commerce, fullback (Princeton) on Walter Camp's first (1889) All-American football team...