Word: grangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every year somebody gives more money to a university or college than anyone has thought of giving before. Last week, Candy Manufacturer Henry G. Granger deposited $100 in the People's National Bank of Hoosick Falls. Each year, half the interest will be given to Princeton University, the other half added to the principal. Theoretically, the deposit would mount to billions, trillions; actually, natural and other laws will prevent any such development...
...chemical cunning. Meanwhile, the potential energy of hundreds of millions of tons of industrial raw materials is wasted. This waste material is full of cellulose. Already cellulose is made into many an industrial product by chemists: paper, rayon, wall board, fireproof tile materials, synthetic lumber, insulating materials. Dr. Henry Granger Knight pointed out that it rests with the farmer to decide whether it is more profitable to sell his waste products in bulk to industrial concerns or to exploit them himself. He discussed the manufacture of alcohol from grain, potato, fruit residues; utilization of unfit lemons for making citric acid...
Last week Paleontologist Walter Granger motored 100 miles to a telegraph post to tell civilization that Leader Andrews had been shot in the leg but that his wound was not serious. The gun was his own, accidentally discharged during an antelope hunt; the leg was his own, accidentally in the way. It is probable that Antelope-Hunter Andrews quoted Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's famed remark, as he has done before: "Adventures are a mark of incompetence...
...Allen, Jr., Chairman, and Barbara Haruth; J. W. Bethell and Margaret Eastman; E. C. Booth and Jeanette Gow; C. del, Solar and Beatrice Allen; C. H. Granger and Cecille Stanley; C. A. Stewart, Jr., and Roberta Robinson...
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (ciga-rets: Chesterfield, Fatima, Piedmont; smoking tobacco: Velvet, Granger Rough Cut; chewing tobacco: Star, Horse Shoe) ?$18,743,395. Previous year...