Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the squalor and duress of Britain's most "depressed area" (the South Wales mining district) a brilliant young physician, Andrew Manson, took his first medi-cal appointment. He scorned the mumbo-jumbo of outworn textbooks, went to the unprofessional lengths of helping dynamite a sewer at dead of night because he knew it responsible for a typhoid epidemic. Again & again in his crusading zeal "never to take anything for granted'' in Medicine he was thwarted by the indifference of senile or mediocre colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners...
...elephant since Phineas Taylor Barnum's Jumbo has had a legitimate claim to the distinction of being more famous than all others of the species. And no world-wide tabulation is kept of ages of elephants, which live to be about 120. But Babe, aged more than 100, may well have been the oldest in captivity. And as for fame, certain it is that she trouped with Jumbo, worked for and outlived Showman Barnum, the Ringlings, and generations of circusgoers...
...when the Texas Centennial fair got under way at Dallas, Doctor Rose was called in by Fort Worth and encouraged, with a contract paying $1,000 a day for 100 days (TIME, June 8, 1936), to unleash his imagination upon a rival fair. Mr. Rose carted his musical circus Jumbo down to Fort Worth and set up four or five other super-spectacles, including Sally Rand and her fans. So well satisfied were the city fathers of Fort Worth that they signed up Doctor Rose on the same terms for a second Frontier festival, which opens late this month. Lately...
Staked by two hard-pressed prospectors m the winter of 1935 in Nevada's Slumbering Hills northwest of Winnemucca was a gold claim now known as the Jumbo Mine. For $10,000-$500 down-the Jumbo was sold a few months later to one George Austin, a grizzled oldster who ran the hotel and general store in a nearby flag stop called Jungo on the Western Pacific". Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group...
Last week George Austin got an offer he could ill afford to refuse. To a syndicate of Texas oilmen he leased the Jumbo for 35 years with an option to buy it outright within 20 years for a cool $10,000,000. Under the lease the Austins will get from 10% to 20% of gross production, depending on the grade of the ore, but in no case less than $100,000 per year. Mr, Austin also stipulated that should the option be exercised, the $10,000,000 must be paid in instalments of not less than $1,000,000 annually...