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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sulphate Fog. Just within Canada on the western border is a copper plant which belches forth a fog of copper sulphate, destructive to orchards in the State of Washington for miles around. Washington, D. C., has, so far unsuccessfully, attempted to dispel this sulphate fog. but control over the winds seems the solution...
...York State Legislature this year refused to pass a prohibition enforcement act. Last week it did, however, enact a law to protect its citizens from the ravages of wood (methyl) alcohol. A 'legger selling this poison as a beverage will go to jail for one year the first time, for two to five years thereafter. Now to stay within the State law, New York 'leggers must deal strictly in the kind of alcohol (ethyl) prohibited...
...moved off in a new direction last week. The Federal board headed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to deal with this problem advised the American Petroleum Institute, in effect, that what was apparently illegal under the Sherman anti-trust law could be made legal through the little-used state-compact clause of the U. S. Constitution. What smart Secretary Wilbur proposed to the A. P. I. was: Disintegration of its hard-won national agreement to limit oil production to the 1928 figures, into state agreements; legalization of these agreements by each state; consolidation of these state authorizations into compacts...
...basic industries. It has been urged that the Government should seek an opportunity for utilizing the national credit for stimulating general trade, and particularly in connection with assisting toward rationalization. Such transactions are far better dealt with in the sphere of regular business than by direct intervention of the state...
...likes the taste of butter "straight" less than His Majesty's bantamweight, peppery Secretary of State for Dominions & Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery. None the less, Mr. Amery let a great deal of butter melt on his short, sharp tongue, the other day in London, tasting samples at the Australian Butter Show. Prizes had been offered by the Orient Steam- Navigation Co., Ltd. (whose packets ply to Australia) for "the best export butter"-one which would still be "best" after the 13,000-mile voyage to England. Each sample had been point-scored when shipped...