Word: cullinan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diamonds as his fellow South African, General Jan Christiaan .Smuts was pessimistic about gold. Operations were resumed last year at the Dutoitspan mine. With the world once more buying diamonds, said Sir Ernest, two other mines would soon be reopened: Bultfontein and Wesselton. Jagersfontein and Premier, where the great Cullinan diamond, world's largest (3,106 carats— 1 2/5 lb.), was found, would have to await larger quotas to permit profitable operation...
Jounced awake the same night in a San Francisco hotel was Joseph S. Cullinan, 76, robust, snowy-haired co-founder and first president of Texas Co. which he left in 1913, apostle of rugged individualism, good friend of Herbert Hoover in whose Wartime food administration he assisted. Alarmed, Mr. Cullinan jumped out of bed, caught a cold which turned into pneumonia, died...
...tomorrow confident of duplicating last year's 35-0 victory over Harvard. In the face of the mediocre season enjoyed be Coach Fritz Crisler's eleven thus far this confidence hardly seems justified. But a team which includes veterans Captain Montgomery, Charley Toil, Fred Ritter, George Stoess, and Steve Cullinan in the line and Ken Sandbach, Jack White, and Chick Kaufman in the backfield boasts enough potential power to run rough-shod over most of the stronger grid teams in the east...
...fighting desperately with his charges to avoid a let-down after the grueling contests with Penn and Navy. PRINCETON STATISTICS Pos. Age Wgt. IIt. Rawis, W. S. '37 r.e 21 185 6.2 Toll, C. H. Jr, '38 r.t. 20 222 6.5 Montgomery, T. W. '37 r.g. 23 183 6. Cullinan, S. E. '37 c. 21 180 5.11 Ritter, A. F. '37 l.g. 23 190 6. Stoess, G. J. '37 l.t 23 198 6.2 Chubet, J. P. III '37 l.e 23 170 6. Sandbach, E. K. '37 q.b. 22 180 6. Kaufman, C. E. '37 r.h.b. 23 181 5.11 White...
...Died. Sir Thomas Cullinan, 74, owner of South Africa's Premier Mine, in which was discovered in 1905 the world's biggest diamond (Weight: 3,106 carats-1⅓ lb.); in Johannesburg, South Africa. Cullinan I, largest (530 carats) of the 105 diamonds cut from it, reposes in King Edward VIII's scepter...