Word: pike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More famed even than the Burpees are the Starks who came less recently into the Burbank activities. Judge James Stark, home from the War of 1812, founded the company in the territory explored (1806-07) by General Zebulon Pike which then stretched from the Mississippi to the Santa Fe. Today the Stark organization maintains the oldest nurseries in the U. S., the largest in the world. On 3,992 acres, in plantations located in seven States they propagate fruit trees, roses, shrubs. In France, too, they maintain nurseries. They employ nearly a thousand men and women. About 15.000 commission salesmen...
...avoid a nervous breakdown. France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand found quiet refuge at his farm near Cocherel, Normandy. There on a small platform built over a branch of the Eure River. Brer Briand stays the day long in the shade of a tree, angling for perch and pike...
...divertissement's activity takes place before a severe black velvet drop. A good band (Pike Davis' Continental Orchestra) is placed onstage and blares forth from time to time as a background for the production's various musical numbers...
...Harvey Pike Jr., vice president of New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange, was elected president...
...Archibald '32, S. G. Atkinson '32, P. H. Bates '33, E. A. Grant '32, N. P. Hallowell '32, C. H. Hardenburg '33, Rockwell Kent '32, W. K. Tuck Gr., F. H. Walkling '32, F. M. Watkins Gr., J. W. Welsh '31, J. C. Willis '32, G. M. Pike...