Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since it was realized by the British public that the king was seriously ill Buckingham Palace has been literally inundated with patent medicines and bottles containing unguents made from hundred-year-old recipes sent by well-wishers for His Majesty's recovery. . . . There are phials containing green, red, and yellow liquids; there are chest pastes made from fruits and flour, there are unguents of crushed ginger and honey which have been handed down in recipe from generation to generation, and there is a whole drawer full of protective amulets sent by villagers from nearly every county in the country...
...vitamin PP" as a preventive of pellagra (disease resulting from unbalanced diet); of hypernephroma, a malignant growth on the kidneys resembling cancer; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. A martyr to science, he had within 15 years investigated and contracted the following diseases: typhus fever (Mexico City), yellow fever (New Orleans), bone-breaking fever (Brownsville...
...Hertz's final act was to give 7,000 shares of Yellow Cab stock to 60 employes who had been with him since the start, and to sell them 7,000 additional shares on an easy deferred payment plan...
...retirement of Mr. Hertz, last week, was complete. He resigned as president and chairman of the board of Chicago Yellow Cab Co.* He sold all his holdings to Charles A. McCullough, of Parmelee Transfer Co.. who becomes chairman of Chicago Yellow Cab Co. Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames Jr., 33, son of the famed Princeton footballer, himself a fair footballer, recently general manager of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, becomes Yellow Cab's president...
...John Daniel Hertz was ready to make the taxicab an industry and to upset all previous methods. He had engineers design a small, tough cab. of low upkeep cost. He manufactured dozens, hundreds of them. He painted them an eye-arresting yellow-orange. He announced rates that knocked the public's eye out- 30? for the first mile, and no charge for the "dead haul'' (let a driver go five miles to get a 30? passenger if necessary). The Yellow cabs were shined up every day. Dentists and doctors took care of the drivers. Knowing well...