Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes they whirled him in a machine 1,200 times a minute. The insect did not die because air pockets j in his hard coat apparently protected him. Beside these insect researches, Mr. Loomis, vice president of Bonbright & Co., experiments in his private laboratory at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., on the effect of "super-sounds," too shrill for human audibility. The "super-sounds" kill fish, paralyze mice, sterilize blood...
...York learned that for the first time women students at Columbia exceeded men in the university's total of 34,997. And last week two new colleges undertook to specialize in fitting women for strenuous modern life. Rich men's daughters assembled at Webber College, Babson Park, Florida. There they will spend the winter, learn to administer estates, specialize in the care of securities, real estate, hope to attain the degree of "B.B."-bachelor of business. Business men who sent their daughters included: Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Statistician, Prudential Insurance Co. of America; W. E. Betteridge, President...
...citizen of Meridian, Miss., and which was erected during his lifetime in the year 1913. The statue was erected in honor of Mr. Marks by public subscription, voluntarily donated by the people of all creeds and classes living in the City of Meridian, and it now stands in Highland Park in the City of Meridian. It was an appreciation to Mr. Marks who was a factor in the building of the City of Meridian, a public spirited man, generous, and beloved by all the people...
...Schulte is conspicuous in chain store circles. More than a year ago his 800 tobacco temples entered into partnership with the 3,000 United Cigar Stores.* Shortly after that he bought Huylers, Inc. (48 tea, ice cream and candy saloons). He has interests in V. Vivaudou, Inc., Park & Tilford, Dunhill International, Inc., Melba Manufacturing Co., American Druggists Syndicate, the Alfred H. Smith Co. As amazing sideshows, he paid $75,000,000 for the French tobacco monopoly two years ago, and bought the Overholt distillery (2,000,000 gallons of whiskey) for $15,000,000. Also...
...begin the story, he was the $18-a-week clerk in his brother-in-law's cigar store in Park Row, lower Manhattan, 37 years...