Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like a giant spider in the middle of a great web with eyes in front and behind. A man who sees everything, knows everything and controls everything in the underworld," said Mr. Monaghan, but did not name any name. The diversion of 350,000 gallons of pure grain alcohol from Philadelphia throughout the land was described as the Master Mind's greatest recent coup. In addition to being the upkeeper of its own 13,000 saloons and speakeasies, Philadelphia appeared as a spigot from which alcohol poured out to all parts of the country with a source of supply...
...Preston (Minn.) wagon factory as a small but husky boy, working overtime to help his mother balance the household accounts. At 20, he embarked for the nearest big city, which happened to be Minneapolis. He worked for the F. H. Peavey Co., who are now the largest grain merchants in the U. S. He became an investment banker. When he was 46, he went to Chicago, as vice president of the old Illinois Trust & Savings Bank. Last year he became president of its successor, the Illinois Merchants...
...headline was made possible by R. B. Gentles, grain broker, as he started on the first westbound trip of the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. Others who traveled on the first eastbound T. A. T. express were a businesswoman who wanted to catch a boat to France, a physician who was in a hurry to see his sick daughter, the Mayor of Fargo, N. Dak., several railroad executives...
...desire more real silk. This is also true of pearls. The U. S. and France sell the artificial ones. Thus people learn the beauty of the real ones and buy-from Mexico, Ceylon, Arabia. Into this double pearl demand Japan has insinuated itself. Work people drop a grain of irritant into an oyster's shell. A kind of hard felon develops in the oyster. It is a cultured pearl...
Died. Robert Grain, 63, Maryland politician & corporation lawyer; owner of the largest private estate in Maryland, famed host; of intestinal trouble; in Washington...