Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week cotton hovered just above 6? per Ib., which meant that Gum Man Wrigley had so far sustained a 40% paper loss. But 6? cotton looked like a good investment to another Chicagoan. Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr., president of Cudahy Packing Co. More cautious than Gum Man Wrigley, Meat Packer Cudahy announced that he would invest 10% of his company's Southern sales in cotton until $1,000,000 has thus been spent. At current prices a purchase of some 33,000 bales was involved...
Girls & Vegetables. An observation: Vegetarian co-eds at the University of Colorado have more efficient digestive apparatus than their meat-eating school mates.?Dr. Glen Raymond Wakeham of Boulder...
Ellsworth Vines Jr. of Pasadena and Frederick J. Perry of London were the two most interesting players in the National Doubles Championship at the Longwood Cricket Club last week. Vines, whose father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, has been the sensation of this year's early season tournaments. He won the Longwood and Seabright invitation tournaments, won again at Newport last fortnight, where he beat Perry in the finals. A lanky youth who often plays in a broad white linen cap. he uses a slice serve, an Eastern grip for his smooth flat drives. Perry played...
...abroad, was to become worse. Hankow (pop. some 800,000) and its sister cities Hanyang and Wuchang were doomed to destruction: houses were collapsing everywhere, mud walls on which refugees perched were slowly sinking into the floodwaters. The three cities had enough cereals for three weeks. A little meat, no vegetables, no ice. The power plants were in danger...
...south-west of Kotzebue Sound to wait for clear weather. (LINDYS LOST IN ARCTIC SEA headlined the catchpenny New York Evening Graphic.) Several hours later they reached Nome, put their ship down on Safety Bay, 21 mi. away, instead of in the Nome River. There they dined on reindeer meat with Territorial Senator Alfred Julian Lomen; witnessed an Eskimo "wolf dance," performed for the second time in 20 years; heard oldtime wireless operators pay tribute to Mrs. Lindbergh as "a good ham [amateur operator]. Her signals were clear and nice." Colonel Lindbergh announced casually that from the Orient...