Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adams House will start the week's festivities on Friday with a gale Christmas dinner for Gold Coasters and their Indies, followed by a production of Thurber's "Male Animal." Dancing will conclude the evening's celebration. Dunster will be competing with Adams that night as the two Houses present the same bill. Their dramatic falcuts will be concentrated on Outon's "Peace in Our Time," starting Heleu MeCleskey...
More Precious Than Gold...
...were not more precious than the gold in the ground at Fort Knox, one could wish heartily that Wheat Farmer Campbell's wheat [TIME, Nov. 17] would rot where it lies on his farms. No more damning indictment of uncontrolled capitalism can be imagined than the vicious economics of Farmer Campbell. Another way to get farmers to sell, besides that advocated by Campbell, would be to stop subsidizing them and thus force them to sell their goods for what a free and open market will bring...
...Washington, Secretary of the Interior Julius A. ("Cap") Krug's home was burglarized while he was exploring the nation's interior. Gone: one leather jacket, two watches, three gold studs (with diamonds), a few gold trinkets, one $20 gold piece, and four golden cases of Scotch...
Bell Bows Out. James Ford Bell, 68, the "Dean of American Millers," bowed out as chairman of giant General Mills, Inc. (Gold Medal Flour, Wheaties, etc.). Bell helped found the company in 1928, was its president until he became chairman in 1934, steadily built the company sales to a peak of $379,032,427 in its last fiscal year. President Harry Bullis, 57, will move up into the chairmanship, and Executive Vice President Leslie N. Perrin, 61, will become president. "The old man" will keep in touch as chairman of a newly formed "committee on finance and technological progress...