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...said Belgium was suffering from a return of the medieval "Black Death." Coincidence. Experts of the French Army were busy last week at Lille (80 mi. from the stricken Meuse Valley) producing enormous clouds of what they called "a cheap, harmless artificial fog made from chalk, sulphuric acid and tar products which will be extremely useful to hide the movements of troops in war time...
...Sale, credit for this campaign is due to Joseph Katz whose advertising agency of the same name handles the Ex-Lax account. Other of smart Adman Katz's customers are: American Oil Co. (Amoco Gas), Maryland Pharmaceutical Co. (Rem For Coughs), Sealpax Co. (Lady Sealpax), Strouse-Baer Co. (Jack Tar Togs...
...International Combustion Engineering Corp., now in the hands of receivers. The Prestcoke method, fruit of eight years experiment, has unique features: briquets that do not crumble; a product free from clinkers with only one-half anthracite's ash, one-quarter its moisture; a high yield of gas and tar. Gas is salable, tar less so. Former projects have suffered through inability to obtain a balanced market for these byproducts. Prestcoke's prospects are brightest west of the Alleghenies, where freight charges handicap anthracite fatally. Even there it will meet bitter competition from fast-burning coke...
Sensitive Separatist Malbach kept a music store. Gleeful young Germans swept down upon him, chopped all his pianos to bits. When the crowd howled that they were coming to give him a coat of tar and feathers, Separatist Malbach blew out his brains...
Since in France the men of the Left are, with a few notable exceptions, relatively less experienced in Government and famed than the Poincares and Tardieus of the Centre, some contemptuous critics of the new Government called it "scarcely a Cabinet." Certain it was that ousted Tar dieu and colleagues would launch and continue one of the hottest fights in French parliamentary history in an effort to oust Briand's yesmanly Chautemps...