Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Creating such realistic scenes is the new aim of natural history museums. The American Museum has several groups of wild animals in natural surroundings. Last week it received seven lion skins, brought back from Tanganyika district of East Africa by its Carlisle-Clark African expedition. The lions will be posed at the edge of a thicket near one of the great granite boulders that stick up out of the African plains. In the distance will be herds of game (painted on a back drop). It will be sunset, the lions wakening up, stretching themselves. One lioness, with a few bristles...
...chewers who will chew Wrigley's Doublemint gum in 1929 will realize that the use of the word "Doublemint" is costing the Wrigley company almost $2,000,000. Back in 1911 the L. P. Larson gum company, claiming prior rights to the word "Doublemint," sued Wrigley for its use of this brand name. After a -year battle, Wrigley Gum and Larson Gum have settled the quarrel by payment of $1,900,000 to the Larson company...
...King from J. Ogden Armour. Here "Old Hutch"-P. B. Hutchinson-ran the price of wheat from 89¾? a bushel to $2.00, then watched the market collapse to 60?. Present value of a Trade seat is $45,000. When the building opened it was $2,400. Even further back, in 1848, when a few pioneers organized the first grain exchange, they had to supply free lunches and beer to get traders to attend...
...naturally, made him considered a financial authority. While other sound names- Charles G. Dawes, Victor C. Bell, Harris Hammond - were listed on the Jenkins directorate, Wall Street wondered why, if television were now an immediate commercial possibility, General Electric Radio, or some other established power had not helped to back it. There appeared to be, however, a friendly alliance with de Forest of which young Biddle is also chairman...
When Dick was so fatally sold, Clarence was nowhere about. His father imagined him, now a rich boy, kidnapped. A scared posse found the stripling all a-blubber, trying to warm his back against the outside of a stockyard store. Reporters nagged him. Muttered he: "Dick's so gentle he wouldn't hurt anybody. But he knew me best, and every time I went near him he tried to lick my face...