Word: acree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founder Queeny died in 1933, leaving Monsanto management to his son, Edgar Monsanto Queeny, who had been president since 1927. Tall, dark, brisk President Queeny lives on a 500-acre farm in St. Louis County, rides horseback every morning before going to work. He boasts that "Monsanto's net...
A rich and cultured Harvardman like his late uncle, 34-year-old Boies II has hitherto devoted himself to scholarship and society, is the owner of a notable collection of etchings, engravings, manuscripts and rare books. When he decided few months ago to make a career for himself in politics...
For half a year Prince Farouk had been virtually a prisoner on the four-acre estate except for two afternoons a week at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. An endless round of tutors drilled him in English, French, Arabic, history, geography, mathematics, chemistry, physics, gymnastics, boxing, fencing and tennis...
Meantime, the warring races continued to bedevil one another. In the preponderantly Arab city of Jaffa, Arabs set fire to a few Jewish shops. Thereupon the fire, backed by a strong wind, turned and burned a number of Arab homes. Jews from the Arab towns of Hebron, Acre and Beisan...
About to change hands last week was the famed Barco oil concession, an inaccessible 500,000-acre tract of jungle in northeastern Colombia. Originally granted to Colombia's late General Don Virgilio Barco in 1905, it is one of the world's great concessions, though hardly a barrel...