Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Idaho he went to Mexico, then emerged in San Francisco to found the successful engineering firm of Caetani, Burch & Hershey. It was making Prince Caetani rich when the War broke, but as soon as Italy joined the Allies he rushed home to serve his State. When he reached the front on the Dolomite Alps, 10,000 Italians had lost their lives trying to capture "The Eye of the Austrian Army," an outpost on the 9,000-foot cone-shaped mountain Col di Lana. This extended so far into the Italian line that Austrian observers could spy out every Italian...
Over in Manchukuo the same foreign oil firms are being squeezed, if possible, even harder. The Japanese Government owns half the stock of the South Manchuria Railway, which in turn owns 40% of something called the Manchuria Oil Co., 80% of whose stock is in Japanese hands. To this firm His Majesty the puppet Emperor of Manchukuo has been graciously pleased to grant a monopoly of petroleum sales within his realm. President of the Oil Monopoly is Mr. Keizaburo Hashimoto, brother-in-law of famed General Takashi ("Happy Sparrow") Hishikari, the Japanese Ambassador to Manchukuo and Commander-in-Chief...
...whom she was delivering a telegram. Reaching Panama, she is filled with only one idea-the determination to get home again-and through her tiny, personal crisis, as she seeks help from one man after another in the Canal Zone, is gradually revealed the gargantuan plot of a munitions firm to start a war by blowing up the U. S. Navy as it passes through the Canal...
...make "rhinies" (new boys) wear special caps, roll down trouser cuffs, keep off the grass. They stop classes every morning for a 15-min. session of crackers & milk. Lawrenceville enrollment has grown from 60-odd to about 500 and a Student Council rules the campus with a firm hand. It may expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville sends most of its graduates to nearby Princeton. Some Lawrence-villians: onetime U. S. Attorney-General William D. Mitchell, onetime Ambassador to Japan Roland S. Morris, Architect William A. Delano...
...first U. S. "house plans." Lean years lay behind the school when Mather Almon Abbott took its headmastership in 1919. Halifax born and Oxford bred, "The Bott" had taught President Roosevelt at Groton, had been crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, was big, ruddy, firm-willed. At Lawrenceville he upped scholarship and enrollment, turned everybody out for sports, started rowing and polo, opened a Lower School for boys under 14, established scholarships for British boys. His biggest & best jobs were to put Lawrenceville on the map, raise funds. He had a $3,000,000 building program two-thirds done...