Word: domain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Medal of Honor award to aged (85) General of the Armies John J. Pershing (belatedly, for services in World War I, and for "gallant and unselfish devotion to ... the preparation for and prosecution of World War II"). ¶A standard 12.5% royalty on gas & oil leases on the public domain, instead of varying rates now negotiated-assailed by ex-Secretary Ickes as "further enrichment [of the oil companies] at the public expense...
Former members of Eliot House, who must wait until the fall term to return to their beloved domain, will be glad to hear that Martin Ratchford, janitorial major dome, is keeping an eye on their property. But Ratchford's getting worried...
...when a Scots engineer named William Clarke Cowie (who looked like a bartender in one of the very best hotels) ran a Spanish blockade to deliver his cargo of arms to the Sultan of Sulu, ruler of North Borneo. The grateful Sultan granted him shipping rights in his domain; later, at a resplendent dinner, he let Cowie persuade him to cede sovereignty over North Borneo to a British syndicate (in an expansive mood, the Sultan threw in the mother-of-pearl dessert plates on the table, along with his realm). Cowie, as one of the directors of the new British...
...equipment for Sears, Roebuck (at $55 a week) and the other half testing his equipment himself. Each summer, as soon as the snow melts in the passes, he disappears into the lakes and streams thousands of feet above the sea in California's High Sierras. It is the domain of crimson-bellied Salmo roosevelti,* the rare golden trout...
...year-old Mister Crump. When he passed, in a gleaming new Chrysler, sidewalk idlers gawked as if they had spied the Mad Mullah of Tud, nose ring and all, cracking pecans on the Hope Diamond. Ed Crump did not ignore them. As he rode on casual journeys through his domain he watched the pavements as sharply as a kingfisher hunting shiners; his pink face lighted at the first sign of recognition. If people turned, he snatched a wide-brimmed grey hat from his ear-long white locks, nodded majestically as if thousands cheered, and cranked down the car window with...