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...there was a boy. This was very long ago. The boy went to a very nice school where you called the principal "Father". He got a good education there, he met Hooker Beane, the son of the great international banker, and Jeremy Sloan, the heir to the great sugar-beet fortune, and he roomed with Weston, the brilliant young gentleman-rider...
...capital totals some $1,400,000,000, not to mention the fabled "Mines of Golconda." In English poesy, these disgorge a never-ending stream of diamonds. They lie immediately west of the city of Hyderabad, India's fourth largest metropolis (pop. 400,000). frowned upon by the beet-domed tombs of the Royal Family (see cut, p. 22) about five miles out in the suburbs. Poesy aside, the Mines of Golconda have yielded diamonds in only trifling quantity and were exhausted long ago. What fooled early English travelers was the fact that Golconda was long one of India...
Delegate Edwards said that when the ruler prepared to marry his 301st wife, the others forced him to renounce this plan by abandoning the Shah en masse, seeking sanctuary in the British Legation. Red as a beet, Iranian Delegate Nasrollah Entezam demanded that this tale be expunged from the record...
Amalgamated Sugar, of which Marriner Eccles has been an officer since 1921, is one of the two great Mormon sugar companies. In 1929 it lost its independent status when the (gentile) American Beet Sugar Co. (now American Crystal Sugar Co.) acquired 99% of its common stock. Like all beet sugar companies Amalgamated had a terrible Depression. It piled up a cumulative operating deficit of $3735,000 (since reduced nearlyone-third) which made it impossible under Utah law for it to pay any dividends. American faced the prospect of not getting any return on its investment for perhaps ten years. Therefore...
...this splendid Republican county of Morgan. . . . There are many things which I would like to talk to you about but time is short. . . ." Chuff-chuff-and the special was on its way to Sterling, where another crowd and another brass band turned out at the station. With "sugar beets" ringing in his ears, Nominee Landon stepped out on the rear platform to declare: "I know this is one of the fine agricultural counties of Colorado and of the western section of the country, and that the beet industry is the nucleus of your prosperity in this county; and I want...