Word: tonics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighteen months ago, after hundreds of drinks of the radium tonic, he began having pains in his jaw, severe headaches. Dr. Joseph Manning Steiner, Manhattan x-ray specialist who had seen several of the young women poisoned in U.S. Radium Corp.'s factory (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq.'), recognized in Byers' condition symptoms of radium poisoning...
...extracts-like Oxo, which comes in cubes, Lemco, in crocks, or Beefex-have never endangered Bovril's prestige. Hitherto, Bovril sales in the U. S. and Canada have been handled by Harold F. Ritchie, "world's greatest salesman," who owns Eno's Fruit Salt (morning-after tonic), Pompeian Cream (face restorer) and who recently purchased for several million dollars Scott's Emulsion (delicious white cod-liver oil). William S. Scull Co., the newly appointed sales agents for the U. S., recently celebrated their 100th Anniversary in the wholesale coffee and tea business and were doubtless aware...
...doctors, as a body, want modification of the Volstead Act (TIME, Oct. 12), chiefly because they want no Governmental restrictions on their professional conduct. They disagree radically, however, on the merits of alcohol as a drug or tonic. Few alcohol proponents are as "sick and tired of all the bunk" on the subject as is Professor Clendening who Wants to be quoted "freely as saying that the best inherent qualities in any alcoholic drink are in whiskey...
Evidently finding the scorching weather a tonic for the batting eye, a vicious Harvard baseball nine went on a hitting spree last Saturday at Providence, and it took the best efforts of two Brown pitchers to confine the visiting nine to 15 bits and a 10 to 2 run victory. The game was a flashy spectacle from start to finish, with the free hitting of the winning Harvard batsmen being offset by the professional in fielding of the Bruin basemen, who staged four fast double plays during the tilt. Mac Hale garnered his second victory of the season over Brown...
...sold to Harold F. Ritchie of Toronto and F. M. Shoemaker of Elmira, N. Y. The Ritchie-Shoemaker combination already owns the Pompeian facial cream company (bought last year from Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.) and controls International Proprietaries, Ltd., maker of Eno's Fruit Salt, morning-after tonic...