Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Crest on a blue field, above "Union of South Africa," below Unie van Suid-Afrika. First to fly the new governor's flag of British-Dutch South Africa will be her new Governor General, George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, great & good friend of His Majesty, owner of ruined Kenilworth Castle, onetime chairman of British Broadcasting Corp. Not eager to be first to fly the Canadian Governor General's prospective flag is the Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain since 1922 and a leading member of "the Buckingham Palace clique." In respectful terms of loyalty, devotion, Lord...
...lies the palm-broidered key called Treasure Island by its fun-loving owner Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune. Fishing is finer in Nassau than at Bermuda. There is good trolling for sharks, king fish, barracuda, Spanish mackerel, grouper, amberjack right off the mouth of Nassau Harbor. Only 20 mi. away is Andros Island which boasts the world's best bonefishing. Seldom over 2 ft. in length, the bonefish ranks among the world's gamiest. It feeds in extremely shallow water with its tail in the air, has two large bony plates in its mouth instead...
Twenty-nine years ago Jack Miner, owner of a small brick factory, thought of making his home comfortable for migrating birds. He had become interested in animals when as a young man he helped support his family by hunting for market. In 1904 he planted a few live decoys in a small pond near his brick factory, scattered ears of corn. Eleven ducks and geese came, spent a few weeks, flew away. The next year 32 arrived. Four years later he caught a duck, banded it to see if he could find out how far it flew in its migrations...
Arthur Jordan, onetime (1898-1916) owner of Meridian Life Insurance Co. of Indiana, was elected president of Postal Life Insurance Co., succeeding William R. M alone who originated the idea of selling life insurance by mail, founded Postal...
...operating an oilpool. Part of his last week's blast was: ". . . Competition in an oilfield is no more competition than is a run on a bank. . . . In fact, the operators are trying to get not only their own oil but everybody else's." Last week a small owner in Kettleman Hills, rich California field, denounced Secretary Wilbur for his plans to put Kettleman on a unit basis. The small man said unit operation would give Standard Oil of California a monopoly. Phrase. To scraggle-whiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma the oil industry was indebted...