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...been in Mexico. But, pshaw, she was only old Peter Fahrney's granddaughter, Merry ("the Madcap"), from Chicago. Remember, she got married half a dozen times or so? Playboys and counts and barons-calls herself the Countess Cassini now. No more harm in her than in the cough syrup old Peter used to peddle. Made a lot of money, he did. Left that girl something like...
...patients' muscles every day for four weeks, until they have had a huge quantity of the substance. After that, injections are given three times a week for a fortnight, then once or twice a week for several months. In addition, patients are given large amounts of capsules and syrup containing the other B vitamins (nicotinic acid and riboflavin), as well as vitamins...
...relieve not only a looming smokeless powder shortage, but the sugar scare (see p. 70). Most ethyl alcohol is normally made from molasses, a by-product of sugar. To increase their production, however, the regular alcohol makers have recently been using not just blackstrap molasses but whole cane syrup (high-test molasses), thus cutting into the sugar supply...
Liquor stills normally use neither cane syrup nor molasses; they use grain (mostly corn). This is plentiful, but expensive. To make alcohol profitable for the distillers, OPA last month raised the price ceiling from...
These were typical of the angry, worried words which flew in the capital of the British Empire last week when it was learned that Singapore, farthest-flung fortress of the Empire, was in grave danger. But the warning was amiss. The Government dispensed no syrup. It appointed Alfred Duff Cooper, onetime Secretary of State for War, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty, onetime Minister of Information, who has been in Singapore for 15 weeks, to be Resident Minister for Far Eastern Affairs. He will have Cabinet rank, will be equal, if not superior, to Commander in Chief Air Chief Marshal...