Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sergius Grata, who founded an oyster farm on Italy's Lake Lucrine. The last was omnivorous General Foods Corp. which last week announced the formation of a new subsidiary. Bluepoints Co. Inc., to take over the assets of the North Atlantic Oyster Farms, Inc. operating in Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. North Atlantic Oyster Farms, Inc. is the largest unit in the industry. Through five subsidiary companies it holds some 35,000 acres of oyster beds, has a fleet of 30 boats, prepares oysters for market in five shore plants...
...would also aim to become a treasure house of information on business that is past. To this purpose the Aldrich Room, the corporation collection, and the original document division, are severally devoted. The Aldrich Room, founded on the collection of finance material assembled by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, forms the center for the provision of material on banking, finance, and the tariff, covering both the distant and recent past; while it also serves as a reading room to those who would study at leisure the development of the United States in these lines...
...survey of the 22 largest prisons in the U. S. outside New York, received reports that 15 of them were "dangerously overcrowded." The percentage of population over capacity in important local prisons was: Indiana State Prison, 79%; Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, 77%; Nebraska State Penitentiary, 61%; Missouri State Prison, 42%; Rhode Island State Penitentiary, 31%; Kentucky State Prison, 31%; Maryland State Prison...
MURDER AT BRATTOX GRANGE-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). When Sir Hector Davidson was found dead with a metal file driven through his heart, only one person was seriously suspected, Guy Davidson, the heir. First the police charged Guy with the murder; then even Dr. Priestley, famed criminologist whom Guy summoned, found sufficient circumstantial evidence to make the prosecution think it had a clear case. However, by calmly assuming the guilt, Guy was able, on a technicality, to go free. Afterward Dr. Priestley, discovering how the murder really happened, forebore to reveal his knowledge to the State. The story differs...
...Brooklyn Navy Yard, great ammunition dumps at the Jersey City railheads had been laid in ruins. The invading fleet in this Army-Navy war game was commanded by Rear Admiral William Carey Cole, U. S. N. Aged 61, slender, handsome, rather English in manner, he led down from a Rhode Island base two battleships, three cruisers, three destroyer divisions, aircraft equipment- theoretically a full-fledged battle fleet. His mission was to bottle up U. S. fighting ships in New York Harbor. At Fort Hancock on Sandy Hook was Major-General Andrew Hero Jr., Chief of Coast Artillery, defending New York...