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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary Wallace took another step toward duck conservation when he indicated that he would approve the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Advisory Board's recommendations for this year's hunting season. Most important duck-saving clauses: 1) Prohibition of baiting of ducks in the vicinity of shooting stands. 2) A 30-day shooting season (half that of last year) for each state, to fall between...
Last week Professor William Ruthzauff Amberson of the University of Tennessee believed that he had progressed one important step beyond Moscow's technique because he had kept cats alive on nothing but ox blood. His method is to break down the bovine hemoglobin, the substance in red blood cells which carries oxygen throughout the body. This cell-free hemoglobin Professor Amberson mixes with Ringer's solution, common table and other salts in distilled water resembling the constitution of blood serum. Cats perfused completely with Dr. Amberson's blood mixture have lived as long as 36 hours. Then...
...dissolved in 1911, Standard Oil of New York took New York and New England as its province, Standard Oil of New Jersey got New Jersey and the Middle Atlantic States and each agreed to keep out of the other's territory. Standard of New Jersey was the first to step out of bounds; in 1929 it acquired Beacon Oil Co. with retail outlets in New York and New England. Last week Standard Oil of New York (now Socony-Vacuum) seemed on the point of retaliating by crossing the Hudson River to sell Socony products in New Jersey. Ostensible reason...
Shortly before 3 o'clock one afternoon last week, swart Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora stepped into the corridor of Washington's squat, ramshackle Federal Trade Commission Building, marched into the office of Commissioner James M. Landis. The first meeting of the new Securities & Exchange Commission was about to be held, a chairman elected. In an office four doors down the corridor waited Commissioners Matthews, Healy and Kennedy. Thirty minutes passed and Mr. Pecora did not join his colleagues to start business. Every few minutes Mr. Landis would step out, glowering darkly, hurry down to the other office to whisper...
Suddenly the Landis office door popped open and all three commissioners emerged smiling. Messrs. Kennedy and Pecora marched down the corridor side by side in step, turned into Commissioner Matthews' office. There the Commission settled down to elect Mr. Kennedy chairman...