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...medicines. Half of the imported camphor is synthesized from U. S. turpentine that has been shipped abroad. New York University's Professor John Joseph Ritter offered a cheap, comparatively simple artificial camphor right in the U. S. from home-produced materials. He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur...
After dinner in Daytona, he felt a sudden stab of pain in his abdomen, thought it was indigestion. He took some soda, paced about the hotel corridors with his wife. Later that night a doctor found the Senator's blood pressure was 182, with symptoms of angina pectoris. Advised to stay over and go to bed, Mr. Walsh replied that he had to get on to Washington for the inaugural. Next day he and his wife started north in a drawing room on Atlantic Coast Line's train...
...Prussian police" made up as follows: 50% ordinary troopers from the Nazi Sturmabteilung; 30% picked Nazi shock troops from the Schutzstaffel, Hitler's Praetorian Guard; 20% members of the Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmets"), War veterans' association whose leader is Minister of Labor Herr Franz Seldte, rich bottler of soda water. With astounding boldness the State ordered that men drafted as "auxiliaries" while holding jobs shall continue to be paid their full wages, irrespective of how much or little time police duties leave them for their regular work. Thus Germany's employer class was saddled by adroit Chancellor Hitler...
...breakfast table he grumbled over the lack of news in the papers. At 8 130 he was at his office (Coolidge & Hemenway) on Main Street, reading his mail, attending to minor personal business. What he thought was another attack of indigestion-he had been doctoring himself for it with soda for three weeks (see n. 30)-made him feel uncomfortable. So about 10 o'clock he said to Harry Ross, his Secretary: "Well, I guess we'll go up to the house...
...water, at once told some friends, fell unconscious. They rushed him to an emergency hospital where Dr. Raymund Joseph Millzner was presiding. Dr. Millzner judged from Cuthbert Reiveley's blue lips and fingernails what had happened, washed out the patient's stomach with a solution of baking soda. Sure enough, the bellywash smelled like peach kernels, the distinctive odor of cyanide...