Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Mrs. Max Foster (Lois Wilbur) Hopper, daughter of U. S. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur; a daughter; in Palo Alto, Calif. Name: Nancy Jane...
...Senators) farms 500 acres in New Jersey. In North Carolina Jakie May (Reds) hunts possums and coons with 20 hound dogs. Waite Hoyt (Yanks) and Mickey Cochrane (Athletics) work in vaudeville. Bill Terry (Giants) who once had a filling station, sells oil in Memphis and sings in a choir. Ray Kremer (Pirates) works in the California oil fields. Dazzy Vance (Robins) used to sell real estate, made money during the Florida boom. Bowlegged Charlie Grimm (Cubs) paints por- traits, plays a $450 banjo, also the zither the xylophone. . . . All of them have something they like to do in the fall...
Eight days after entering the White House, President Hoover announced a sweeping new policy for oil conservation on the public domain. Aware of petroleum overproduction, he ordered his Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, virtually to suspend the U. S. Leasing Act of 1920. Secretary Wilbur promptly executed the new policy by: 1) refusing to make new government oil leases; 2) rejecting most of the 20,000 applications for Federal permits to prospect for oil on the public domain; 3) revoking inactive permits already issued; 4) declining to receive any new permit applications...
...Business. Winners of many of the Garvan Prizes which total $50,000, were announced. In the U. S. 288 high school pupils will receive $120 each for essays, six of the group will get scholar ships which will send them through col lege. Next year Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur will be chairman of the awards committee, succeeding Herbert Clark Hoover...
...hundred and twenty-yard free style Won by Albert Schwartz (Northwestern) second, Austin Clapp (Stanford); third, Ray Ruddy (Columbia); fourth, Garnett Alba (Michigan). Time--2m. 16 3-5s. (new national collegiate record...