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Munitions. Under contract No. 2,010 the Navy Department ordered some 3-inch projectiles from the Edward Valve and Manufacturing Co., Chicago, and partially cancelled this order when the Armistice was signed. The munitions makers claimed $2,259,783.27. Their attorney succeeded in getting $574,291.42, said attorney being the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, onetime Senator (Democrat...
...blood of those who have recovered from chicken pox, if injected into susceptible children, seems to prevent their catching the disease. Nine infants, who had been exposed to the disease, were given injections of the serum from one to six days after exposure. Eight of them did not contract the disease...
Richard Strauss, famed composer, will erect a villa in Vienna. He has just been given a site in one of the public parks and a contract making him Director of the Vienna State Opera. He will occupy the villa at least ten years, the time covered by the contract...
...champion, to Miss Bessie McNear of Kansas City, Mo., in Chicago. During the ceremony the champion's manager broke out of the room, in which Mr. Lewis' friends tried to lock him, shouting: "It's the first time Ed ever double-crossed me!" Lewis was under contract not to marry while champion. Mr. Lewis was divorced last summer from Mrs. Ida Scott Fredericks, a woman physician in San José (TIME, July...
...Federal Government has filed suit against the General Electric Co., charging it with conspiracy in restraint of trade and violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law in its system for manufacturing and distributing electric light bulbs. The suit is mainly directed against a contract system between the General Electric and several companies engaged in distributing electric bulbs, as preventing competition. The petition declares that the Company does a business amounting to about $50,000,000 a year. General Electric claims patent rights for the exclusive manufacture of tungsten filaments used in the better grade of bulbs today...