Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born 55 years ago in the Italian province of Catanzaro, white-maned Giuseppe Donato has long enlivened Philadelphia with artistic disputation. In 1915 he sued Chocolate Tycoon Milton Snavely Hershey for refusing to accept a marble group called Dance of Eternal Spring which he had ordered for a fountain on his front lawn. A jury awarded Sculptor Donato $25,000. Mr. Hershey persuaded the City of Harrisburg to take the Donato fountain. Cried he: "I don't want this damned thing anywhere in Hershey...
...assumed that the best possible mixture for sustaining life is the natural atmospheric mixture of about 79% nitrogen, 20% oxygen and 1% other gases. After twelve years of smothering rats, monkeys and guinea pigs in various artificial atmospheres ranging from pure helium to nitrous oxide, Dr. John Willard Hershey of McPherson College reported that a mixture of 75% argon and 25% oxygen enabled the animals to get along as well as usual, that in 50% helium and 50% oxygen they were apparently more healthy and vigorous than in natural...
David Sturrock, of Lanark, Scotland, former director of the Hershey Agricultural School, Cuba, has been appointed Superintendent of the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University at Soledad, Cuba. He will succeed Robert M. Grey, Superintendent since 1925, who has resigned after thirty years of service at the Institution...
...Hershey Chocolate, to President William F. R. Murrie...
Biggest share of the earnings will go not to Milton Hershey, who does not own the company, but to Hershey Industrial School which does. In the school's account is a trust fund containing 500.000 Hershey common shares (70% of the total outstanding) which Founder Hershey turned over to it in 1909 when he lost interest in making money. The school teaches useful trades to 800 orphan boys who live in houses scattered so widely over the school grounds that to visit them all would mean a 40-mi. automobile drive. The school and other Hershey companies own nearly...