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Investigation disclosed that Merchant Rosenthal had bought his soda by the barrel from one Nick Manno, who had salvaged it from broken Arm & Hammer brand packages. In two weeks bargain-hunting housewives had snapped up 800 lb. Examination showed no traces of poison in other broken Arm & Hammer packages, thus indicating that Rosenthal's soda had been contaminated during or since salvage. A chemist reported that it could hardly have been an accident, because the poisons and soda were too thoroughly mixed...
...bitterest and most effective enemies of war in France. Jean Galtier-Boissière founded Crapouillot (name of a small trench cannon) in 1915, at first distributed it only to his fellow soldiers. After the War he branched out, took a partner, began to make journalistic history with a brand of fearless muckraking which caused French citizens' eyes to pop, French officials' hair to rise. With stark facts and photographs Crapouillot took out such disagreeable subjects as the origins and secret causes of the War; French mutinies of 1917; Wartime homosexuality and prostitution in the Army; false Wartime...
Since 1907 the Exchange has spent $21,600,000 advertising its brand name Sunkist. Last year its advertising budget included $1,450,000 for oranges, $581,000 for lemons, $34,600 for grapefruit. Average gross return to growers was about $2.30 per box. For advertising the Exchange assessed each grower 5? per box for oranges, 3? for grapefruit (Florida dominates that market), 10? for lemons, of which there is a perennial surplus. All other Exchange services cost 5.31? per box, and including those of district exchanges (less than 1? per box) total marketing and advertising charges amounted to about...
...complete understanding and cooperating fully. And on the other side of the picture I see the forces of righteousness, the Christian men and women of this land, huddled together in some scores of pitifully small groups, each more interested in seeking to increase the consumption of his own particular brand of denominationalism or sectarianism than having in mind administering to the souls and bodies of suffering humanity...
Massachusetts state fire authorities recently refused to brand Harvard Hall a firetrap, declaring that students were so athletic that they would find no difficulty reaching the ground...