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THE ORIGINAL ROMEIKE PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU WORK No Connection with any other ROMEIKE 220 WEST 19th ST., NEW YORK Tel. Chelsea 8860 THIS CLIPPING FROM MONTREAL, CAN. DAILY STAR NOV 8 5 1828 DECLARES BELGIUM HAS RADIUM CORNER Dr. Moynihan Says Cost of $60,000 Per Gram Due to Monopoly LONDON, Nov. 8.-(Star Special Wireless)-A definite declaration of the existence of a "distinet corner, a monopoly" in radium by a Belgian company is made by the medical su- perintendent of the Radium Institute, who declares that the Belgians, owing to their ability to produce radium in any quantity they wish, had driven others out of the market and were now able to charge what they liked, and at present the price was $60,000 a gram. Dr. Moynihan declares that every effort must be made to reduce the cost and warns the Belgian company fering. against unduly exploiting human suf-

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