Word: ceylon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pinoleum Million. So long ago that the trade name has become a common proprietary, a Dr. Bryan D. Sheedy, nose & throat man, mixed menthol, camphor, oil of eucalyptus, oil of Ceylon cinnamon and pine-needle oil in liquid petroleum and called his preparation pinoleum. He formed a corporation, the Pinoleum Co., which in recent years despite sharp competition by Standard Oil and others, has averaged $60,902 annual profits. Dr. Sheedy died three years ago. Last week his estate appraised...
...greatly surprised at the comment my stray remark caused in the press. Lately I have received newspaper clippings from places as distant as Cape Town, Madras, and Ceylon. I don't mind what editors say about me, having been one myself. But I do dislike to be misunderstood...
...what are called years of discretion. The purpose of such an arrangement is doubtlessly in order to impress youthful minds with the spirit of discovery and adventure. Another aspect, however, is apparent; it is found that by the mere association of ideas children can easily connect Brazil with nuts. Ceylon with tea, or even Java with coffee. By this method, they learn to the exclusion of more important facts what goes under the name of geography...
...Calvin Coolidge was an inconspicuous Assemblyman in Massachusetts. Alfred E. Smith was the same thing in New York. Herbert Clark Hoover had branched out independently in engineering and in 1907-08 visited England, Egypt, Burma, Australia, New Zealand, Malay, Ceylon...
Died. Sir Henry Alexander Wickham, 82, English rubber pioneer; in London. In 1876 Sir Henry smuggled 70,000 jealously guarded rubber seeds out of Brazil as "rare and delicate botanical specimens for Kew Gardens." In 30 years these seeds have produced 80,000,000 rubber trees in Ceylon and Malaya...