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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Florence: "I'm not mad at Texas at all because of what happened before. I think the people of Amarillo are swell. . ." But she was not planning to resume her interrupted trip East. She had enrolled in Arizona State College...
...Convent. This was many a million dresses away from the attic business that Nellie Quinlan Donnelly, a young housewife, started in 1916. At the Parsons (Kans.) convent where she went to school, the second youngest of 13 Quinlans, she told her roommates: "When I'm a housewife I'm certainly not going to look such a sight as a lot of women...
Last year it finally turned the corner. Says Vacuum's President John M. Fox: "Why, this orange juice thing is the wonder of the grocery world. Ask anybody." Anybody in the frozen food industry agreed-and Birds Eye, Snow Crop and others began to put out their own concentrate. Nevertheless, Vacuum's sales increased so much that President Fox announced last week that the net profit for its last fiscal year...
...m Go'n to Do It." The Freeman family moved to Virginia in 1742, which makes them not quite F.F.V., but Biographer Freeman's maternal ancestors were. Young Douglas was a 17-year-old honor student at Richmond College when his father, who had been a private in Lee's army (and later a general in the Confederate veterans organization), took him to a Confederate reunion. The sight of the Confederacy's brave armless and legless old men stirred young Douglas; he decided: "If someone doesn't write the story of these men, it will...
...years later (January 1934*) in four volumes. At that, he got it done only by putting himself on his present rigorous timetable in 1926. Said Scribner: "This is a formidable job. We will have to sell 4,000 sets to break even." Freeman's reply: "I'm cheatin' you, man!" To date Scribner's has sold 35,000 sets...