Word: marshes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall day in 1900, in a swank Manhattan apartment, a trusted butler clamped a chloroformed towel across the face of his master. So died William Marsh Rice, 84, leaving some $10 million-most of it to his lawyer. To his old friends in Texas, where Yankee Merchant Rice had made his pile, the will seemed strange. They thought that Rice, a widower with no children, had planned to leave nearly all his money to the founding of a college in Houston...
...whirl, he could always spare a thought for his farm back in Quincy, invariably took time to investigate the quality of the local manure. The English manure was fine, wrote Adams, "but it is not equal to mine, which I composed of Horse Dung from Bracketts stable in Boston, Marsh Mud from the sea shore and Street Dust, from the Plain at the Foot of Pens hill." The Europeans found him "a Character...
...currently opening discount branches, sometimes under different corporate names so that customers will not demand equal bargains in the parent stores. And virtually all traditional department stores are rapidly borrowing many of the discounters' methods. Old-line retailers such as Boston's Jordan Marsh and Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. vow that "we will not be undersold," and match discounters' prices for specific items. On the theory that shoppers delight in the adventure of picking out their own merchandise. Manhattan's Macy's and the nationwide Federated Department Stores group have added self...
...Marsh: "This is the first step toward nationalization of all transportation...
...some years ago. A few British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare." But the coypu's only real enemy is England's furious farmer who, prevented by law from using poison-which would also kill off harmless animal life-prowls the marsh with trap and gun. "There's no trouble catching them," says E. A. Ellis, secretary of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust. "The coypu is mentally slow. Once caught he just waits for death, not fighting but moaning. In one area we killed 40,000. But that's only...