Word: deseret
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climax of the Salt Lake celebration was a pageant, witnessed by 20,000 in the stadium of the University of Utah where Miss Young is a junior. Here she emerged from a hive as the Queen Bee of Deseret (the honey bee of the Book of Mormon, symbol of industry). Other features of the pageant included Indian dances, Brigham Young's declaration "This is the place!" as he led his followers down into the valley, the seagulls which ate the crickets and saved the settlers' first crop, the driving of the gold spike at Promontory Point marking...
...State. He is head of the Utah State National Bank, the Zion Savings Bank & Trust Co., of both of which the Church apparently holds majority stock. He is president of the Utah Home Fire Insurance Co. The Church is reputed to be a minority stockholder in the Deseret National Bank, the Deseret Savings Bank...
...jailed at Carthage. A mob attacked the prison; both Prophet Smith and his brother Hyrum were shot dead. In 1847, harassed beyond endurance by their enemies in the East, the greater part of the Mormon Church followed its new leader, Prophet Brigham Young, to the empty land of Deseret which has become thriving, bountiful Utah, a Mormon achievement...
Mormon wealth, though impossible to calculate, is apparent to anyone who studies Salt Lake City commercially. The Church owns The Deseret News, two hotels, two office buildings, the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., and Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution (first U. S. department store, 1868). Through the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co., the Church owns 24,539 acres of farm lands and operates numerous beet sugar factories in Utah, Idaho, Washington, Montana, South Dakota. Board chairman of this company is Heber Jedediah Grant, now President of the Mormon Church. But though net current assets are listed at $3,466,860, worldwide...