Word: fig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missouri one day last week. How gay and glamorous the affair would be, the big annual ball of the Engineering School! How red-blooded and stalwart the engineers, who stride the campus daily in corduroys and stout boots, seemingly oblivious to the admiring glances of the coeds! A fig for their rivals the law-students, who garb themselves nattily, strut with walking sticks! Mary Butterfield hummed gaily, her thoughts on the triumph, that would be hers when the engineers crowned her Queen of the Ball. About mid-afternoon she left the sorority house...
News cameramen about the place caused the Falls great annoyance. One evening while Fall's daughter was watering the flowers, she turned the hose on a fig tree and doused a hidden camera. A disgruntled photographer let fly a stone that grazed the sprinkler's side. Police were called in. They found Fall sitting with a shotgun across his knees, ready to shoot down any cameraman who came on the premises...
...history of National Biscuit Co. has been filled with profits and acquisitions. Its most notable competitor is Loose-Wiles Biscuit whose Sunshine brands rival Uneeda, whose Sunshine Fig Bars are similar, for example, to Uneeda Fig Newtons. A third big company is United Biscuit Co. of America which as yet has no great national trademark although more & more it is using the phrase: Supreme Bakers...
Greatest of Zion industries is Dr. Voliva's candy factory. Sparkling Beauties, a hard candy in cans, is the best seller. Fig Pie, Liberty, Cherrie Sundae and other 5? bars are good sellers. Some of the output is taken by the Great Atlantic & Pacific stores, some by Independent Grocers' Association. He controls the Zion Bank (capital: $50,000) whose rival is First State Bank, largely held by officials of Marshall Field & Co. who also own Zion City's big lace factory. A publishing plant and a department store also loom large in Voliva-land...
...Zion City is worth $10,000,000, he clearly stated this upon his arrival last week in Manhattan. "Certainly I'm worth $10,000,000," he cried. "I own everything in Zion City-the factories, the land. I made $100,000 last year out of my Zion fig bars alone. I have 26 departments in my department store. Any manager who doesn't make a profit I fire. I am 61 and in the prime of condition. I do the work of twelve men. If you stripped me of all my money tomorrow...