Word: augustus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proper. Ranching in the old-west ern style thrives on the grassy Hawaiian uplands. Near Hilo is the biggest Hawaiian ranch, "Sam" Parker's (cattle, sheep; $600,000 per annum income). Southward rises Kilauea, home of Goddess Pele. whose volcanic antics are kept under careful observation by Dr. Thomas Augustus Jaggar of the U. S. Geological Survey...
...Stone & Webster, Inc., newly organized as a Delaware corporation. To present large stockholders went 175.000 additional shares. Priced at $100, the new stock im mediately sold "when, as and if" above $107. The new financing will create a 100-million-dollar corporation. Control will remain with the founders, Charles Augustus Stone and Edwin Sibley Webster...
...Charles Augustus Stone and Edwin Sibley Webster entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They be came such close friends that even in their college days they were a team called "Stone & Webster." At that time electricity was passing through much the same pio neer period now observable in aviation. Bell had just invented the telephone. The first railway electrification was just completed. So Students Stone & Webster majored in electrical engineering, took degrees in 1888. Then came one year of separation which Mr. Stone spent with Thompson-Houston Co. (forerunner of General Electric) while Mr. Webster entered a bank...
...Charles Augustus Stone lives during the winter on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; during the summer at Locust Valley, L. I. He is a tall, spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...
...Copenhagen last week, chose Bert Hinkler as having accomplished 1928's greatest aeronautical achievement. He flew alone from England to Australia in 15 days, 12 hrs. (TIME, March 5, 1928). His reward: a gold medal like the ones the Federation has awarded in prior years to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Sir Alan J. Cobham...