Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yards. The contestants were examined a day or two before and then immediately after the race. The most striking feature revealed by the examinations, in addition to the increase in non-protein nitrogen and uric acid in the blood, was the marked fall in the amount of sugar. This resembled nothing so much as what occurs when an overdose of insulin is given to lower the sugar in a diabetic. In the same way the appearance of the athletes after the race, with muscular twitching, extreme pallor, cold, moist skin and nervous irritability, was like that of a patient...
...Daily News (so called "gum-chewers' sheetlet") published his picture on its front page. Caption: "TRIED TO FORGET.?J. K. Mitchell 'heavy sugar papa' of slain Dot King, returned with wife from Europe yesterday. They're shown leaving ship here...
...railroad executives during the railroad strike; he acted as adviser to the coal operators during the coal strike; he was conferring with cement manufacturers who were under indictment for an alleged violation of the anti-trust law; he was attempting, as the representative of the American producers of Cuban sugar, to secure what these organizations believed to be reasonable tariff; and finally, he was giving counsel to the heads of the oil industry, which was under investigation by a Senatorial committee...
...budget abolishes, from Aug. 1, the 33⅓% duty levied by Chancellor McKenna during the War upon foreign automobiles, films, motorcycles, clocks and musical instruments. The so-called breakfast taxes on sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, chicory are cut by one-half to one-third. The tariff on dried fruits will be dropped on Aug. 1. The inhabited house duty is to be repealed. Amusement taxes are abolished for the cheaper seats in theatres, etc., and reduced for the more expensive seats. The corporation profits tax is to be abolished...
...Some Sugar. The Federal Sugar Refining Co., delivered 420,000 pounds of granulated sugar under Navy Order 6,273, and received payment, at the rate of 14? per pound which was slightly higher than the price fixed by the Paymaster General of the Navy for such sugar. Nevertheless, the sugar corporation claimed 25? per pound, making a balance due them of $37,350 plus interest. Their attorney has taken this claim to the Court of Claims, said attorney being the Hon. Hoke Smith, onetime Senator (Democrat...