Word: rams
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Many a strange and wonderful thing happens in California. When the Sacramento River near Rio Vista?40 mi. northeast of Oakland?receded fortnight ago, the headless body of a young Hindu was found sitting bolt upright, chained to a tractor wheel. He was identified as Sant Ram Pande, 32, engineering student at the University of California. The method of his identification was remarkable. Only three weeks prior he had insisted that his fingerprints be recorded by the State Bureau of Criminal Identification. He had then set out to find the slayers of 13 Hindus who have been murdered...
Standing head & shoulders above its competitors is American Woolen Co., whose normal yearly sales volume is $100,000,000, chiefly in Ram's Head Fabrics. No other woolen-worsted company in the world approaches American's size, but its dominance is not a prosperous one. Long before general Depression began, American Woolen was having its depression. In 1923 the company earned $6,666,000, not much more than it had made in 1922 and 1921. But in 1924 it lost $6,953,000; in 1929 it lost...
Thus American Woolen is ready for a new era. The old management has worked on the financial structure until it is now in a highly liquid position with over $19,000,000 in cash, will afford no worry to the new management which will specialize in intensive selling, ramming the Ram's Head forward...
Members of the Fordham University football team last week eyed with disgust Rameses IV, a large untidy ram. Three weeks ago Mascot Rameses III, who had brought victory to the team for two seasons, was worried to death by mongrel dogs. Immediately a delegation was sent to a New Jersey slaughter house to pick a fit successor, for Fordham's game with St. Mary's College. The delegation surveyed all rams with care, picked as Rameses IV one whose tough, untidy appearance made him particularly lucky looking. Fortnight ago at the St. Mary's-Fordham game, Rameses...
Died. Rameses III, ram mascot of Fordham University's football team; by fighting two dogs at the same time; in The Bronx...