Word: prize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain, the prize War baby was Juan March, who had been born of poor peasants on the island of Majorca. Before the War, March was a small Barcelona trader who sold onions and chickens during the day and smuggled tobacco and silk by night. His smuggling flotilla came in handy as early as October of 1914, when he made a killing by cornering all available pigs on the coast of Spain and selling them to the Entente powers for a fantastic profit. Shortly his smuggling fleet had become the Compania Transmediterranea. This company supplied food to the Entente nations...
...offers for it-$200 from the University of Toronto, lesser sums from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Western Ontario in London. "Numerous private collectors have standing offers in for it," said Dr. Smith, "but only one man has come close." Speculator Smith decided his prize was worth $10 a pound, demanded $800 or more...
Melon-headed Son Bruno Mussolini, 21, whose sporting feats include bombing (Abyssinians and Spaniards), automobile racing and transatlantic hopping, won another prize. At Riccione, Italy, driving the favorite in a trotting race, he came in first, was awarded 4,000 lire...
Married. Madge Evans, 30, blonde screen and stage actress of 25 years' standing, and Sidney Kingsley, 32, Pulitzer Prize playwright (Men in White, Dead End); both for the first time, in York Village...
...understanding of frontier social forces. The six-year work of a 37-year-old professor of English at San Diego State College, San Francisco's Literary Frontier is almost a Western counterpart of Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, looks like a promising Pulitzer Prize contender...