Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Laddie Boy, 9, Airedale beloved of the late Warren Gamaliel Harding; of old age and an abscess in the ear; in New tonville, Mass., at the home of Secret Service Man Harry L. Barker, who had been his master since the death of President Harding. Laddie Boy preferred sugar and cream in his coffee. He was a half-brother of President Coolidge's dog, Laddie Buck...
...completely understood the highly complex method of transferring Reparations "in kind" from Germany to the Allies. Last week Parisian gendarmes clapped M. Pollier into jail. People' said he had used his unusual knowledge to cheat the French Government out of some 80,000,000 francs worth of German sugar paid as Reparations in kind...
Reduced to simplest terms such payments take place in three steps: 1) A German sugar-seller contracts with a French buyer for so many thousand pounds at the current price and the sugar is shipped; 2) The seller collects his money in marks from the German Treasury, and the Reparations Commission then credits Germany with the amount of the payment, just as though it had been made to the Commission in gold; 3) Meanwhile the French dealer who received the sugar sells it and makes payment to the French-Government in francs, whereupon the Reparations-Commission certifies that France...
...Cannon has been conducting a series of investigations since 1896, concerned with the natural defenses of the body against bacteria, mechanical disturbances, and against thermal and chemical changes in environment. He has paid particular attention, in his research to the best regulation of the body, and the coagulation and sugar content of the blood...
Synthetic Insulin. John J. Abel and H. Jensen of Johns Hopkins reported that they had reduced insulin (hormone which controls the body's sugar) to crystals of relatively simple chemical content. In the crystals they found 3% sulphur, considerable nitrogen, five different ameno-acids. They are working to identify remaining insulin crystal constituents. When that is done they feel that they can make synthetic insulin much cheaper than the present animal product. Insulin is one of the four hormones so far isolated. Of the others: adrenalin, thyroxin and pituitrin...