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...Most of the farmers' kids were already asleep when Willard C. ("Parson") Teague, chief editorial writer of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, leaned toward the microphone and drawled out the name of the landowner-sweepstakes winner for 1938 in the "C. A.'s" Plant-to-Prosper campaign. Looking completely confused and happy, grey-haired Farmer H. L. Majure of Poplar Grove. Ark. made his way to the platform and was handed a check...
...understand," he raised his eyes and saw the trail of the sun far in the west. Softly he spoke, "yet I may and must pray to the gods to prosper my journey to that other world--may this, then, which is my prayer be granted to me." Raising the cup to his lips, quickly he drank off the poison...
...once united front against the Act no longer exists. Many realists in the field have taken a full measure of the Act and have concluded that they can and will live and prosper under it.... Yet I see these men under the whiphand of New York finance, paralyzed into inaction. I see realists chafing under the domination of these bankers who are forestalling them from moving forward to obtain equity money which the companies sorely need.... These are grave disappointments...
...after a buzz saw cut off the fingers of a German-born wood turner named John Jacob Bausch, he went tc work selling spectacles in partnership with one Henry Lomb. When Founder Bausch'< son, Edward, learned to fashion microscopes, and sell them, too, Bausch & Lomb began to prosper. Smart Edward Bausch established contacts with the famed German firm of Carl Zeiss in 1890 and before long Bausch & Lomb was using Zeiss patents with exclusive rights to the U. S. market. Shortly thereafter Zeiss bought one-fifth of Bausch & Lomb stock and warmed by increasing royalties from Rochester, began schooling...
...better place." When Philadelphia's Forty-Niners sailed down the Delaware in the Susan Owens, "Sep" tootled encouragingly in the band that saw them off. In spite of the city's cholera plague that year and the Great Fire of the next, "Sep" Winner began to prosper, was able to open a music shop and publishing house. At 23 he wrote his first important song, How Sweet Are the Roses, under the name of Alice Hawthorne. He followed it with such lyrics as What Is Home Without a Mother?, Rebecca at the Well, Motherless Kate, There Is Wealth...