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...unlike such soft drinks as ginger ale and mineral waters, grape juice does not combine with alcoholic liquors...
...McPherson Square. A visitor walking into the Attorney General's corner office on the sixth floor of the Department of Justice Building would see seated behind a large flat-top desk a lithe, slender man with a well-shaped forehead, soft brownish hair, touched with grey at the sides, deep brown eyes of an almost feminine softness. Behind him, wide windows open on McPherson Square. A serene calm fills the office. A stranger would be surprised to learn that this man before him is 55, for he does not look over 40. There is a youthful slightness about...
Another, earlier touch of levity was the insistence by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson that the U. S. delegation should land from their steamer in top hats, though two of them had started down the gangplank in soft headgear. "I feel rather like a Pilgrim father coming back to England," said Statesman Stimson, adding when correspondents did not seem to get his point, "My wife had two ancestors on the Mayflower." Another Stimson mot: "I have brought along my golf clubs, but I am no Bobby Jones." He laughed noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that...
...last year some 12,000 companies employing 120,000 persons, filled 120,000,000,000 bottles with soft drinks and sold them for $650,000,000. The greatest single company in the field of carbonated beverages is Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., although it accounts for only a small percentage of the total U. S. ginger ale output. Dominant in carbonated water is White Rock Mineral Springs Co., with over 90% of the output. Last week Canada Dry officials admitted there have been conversations looking toward a merger with White Rock. On the New York Stock Exchange the shares...
...Spanish. The importation of Negroes continued and only a few Frenchmen settled on plantations in the country or built mansions for themselves in the towns. Theirs was a gay life; social affairs were elaborate and highly organized; beautiful women minuetted with white-wigged planters or, drawn by the soft air and the bright moon, flirted on the cool terraces...