Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...righteous anger against Editor Banks, who was nearly defeated already by his own misfortunes. Editor Ruhl, brother of Arthur Ruhl of the New York Herald Tribune, is everything that his enemy is not: tall, handsome, scholarly, a Harvardman (1903), Unitarian, Elk, Rotarian and Republican. The Medford upper crust approves of him highly, but the mass of Rogue River small orchardists and laborers regard him as a silk stocking. With an editorial entitled "TIME TO WAKE UP," Editor Ruhl called upon his readers to "prevent armed rebellion and bloodshed under Llewellyn A. Banks-the John Brown of the Depression." The climax...
Deep in the earth's crust along the Gulf of Mexico are huge knobs of pure salt. In the tortured strata around these salt domes are often found fabulous pools of petroleum and the world's richest sulphur deposits. Water heated under pressure to 330° is forced into sulphur wells. This melts the brimstone, which is then pumped out. Two companies control substantially the entire U. S. sulphur production and the price for years has been $18 per ton- no more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production...
...whiskers and skullcap) as a wheedling Frankfort moneybroker. The loss of a few gulden in a messenger robbery sets him yowling like an alley cat. When the tax-collector comes down Jew Street, stingy old Rothschild whisks his money bags into the cellar, gives each of his children a crust to gnaw, pops the roastbeef into a garbage box. and talks the collector into taking a bribe. As shrewd as he is stingy, Mayer Amschel Rothschild gets a good idea on his death bed. He tells his five sons to found banking houses in the five greatest cities in Europe...
...ruthless horse-trader. His dealings with the people in the small town in which he lives are cold-hearted and unethical. But a young man who is employed as a teller in his bank learns of his concealed sympathy for the poor, and realizes that underneath a hard crust he really has a soft heart. Because of his poor financial standing, the boy hesitates to propose marriage to a wealthy girl with whom he is deeply in love. Upon the advice of the horse trader, the young man places all his money on a horse the girl has entered...
...Tufts College and Laurence LaForge, Ph.D., research associate in Mineralogy will each give a course. Professor Lane's course will be "Historical Geology" and will be illustrated by numerous lantern slides. Dr. laForge's course will deal with rocks in general as essential parts of the earth's crust. The fifth course will be given by Jeffries Wyman, assistant professor of Zoology...