Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore one noon last week four eminent Belgians, who had traveled 2,500 miles across the sea, drove up to the White House portico. First to step down from his limousine was M. Emile Francqui, head of Belgium's largest bank, the Société Générale de Belgique. Next was M. Camilla Gutt, of Belgium's great Katanga Copper Company in the Congo. Third was their fellow Tycoon Etienne Allard and fourth was a distinguished young member of the Belgian nobility, Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members...
...keeping the peace until one of the Apted Lieutenants was heard to remark, "Say, we better call up the Boss, this is getting high." But he was anticipated by some young gentleman who already had tipped Harvard's riot buster off, and in a few minutes the Colonel himself drove up in his Buick with a squeaking of brakes and hopped out into Mill Street leaving his motor running and crying, "All right you, Break it up, and go Home." This produced magnificent effects and by pushing all the men who lived in Eliot House down toward Dunster...
...family retained the prefix De; Christian's grandson, Ignace, was the true founder of the family's fortune--and this curiously enough, began when he established at Creusot the works that the Schuoiders were later to buy. When the Bastille fell Iguace's lose relations with the menarchy drove him from the country. His properties were sequestered but they were managed by his mother and were bought back through dummies for the account of his two sons. During this turbulent period the sequestered properties were arming the revolutionists to the De Wendel profit, while the properties beyond the wabbling frontiers...
After expressing his opinion that Widener was as interesting as the Germanic Museum. His Excellency drove around the subway station and back to Boston, escorted by two motorcycle officers a carload of Boston policemen a pair of German detectives, the German consul in Boston, and an attache of the Embassy...
Drillers of Cleveland Petroleum Corp., burrowing in the apple orchard of U. S. Senator John G. Townsend Jr. and partner near Bridgeville, Del., struck oil. They packed up some samples, drove co town. One look at the sticky, black brew was enough to send real estate men scurrying to their telephones. Mortgage-ridden farmers soon heard tales of fabulous land prices. One who had been trying to sell his plot for a few hundred dollars was offered $1,500. "I wouldn't take $4,000 for it now," said he. Storekeepers got ready to pitch hot dog stands near...