Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Saminsky's interest in the American Indian dates back almost to his birth in 1882 near Odessa. He was raised on Indian folklore and translations of James Fenimore Cooper. Young Saminsky's people were rich Jewish merchants with a bent for theology and the arts...
Largely by such means is Oxford University endowed. Most Americans think of Oxford, fattened by the benefactions of seven centuries, as a rich university. In fact Oxford is a loose bundle of colleges, many comfortably rich by 18th-Century standards, but despite the old paintings and priceless silver only modestly well off for the 20th. Each college houses its own members and turns over to the University a substantial part of its income in return for instruction and administration. Since 1925 about a third of the cost of running Oxford has had to be met by Parliament. In 1935 Oxford...
...rich, 32-year-old Yaleman William Edward Boeing tired of his family's lumber business in Seattle, hired Glenn Martin to teach him to fly. Two years later, Bill Boeing smashed his pontoons in landing. Unable to get a new pair at once, he set out to make them himself, ended up by building a whole new plane in a one-room factory with 30 employes. It turned out so well that the Army asked for some like it. Somewhat to his own surprise, Bill Boeing agreed to make them. When the Armistice abruptly killed all military contracts...
...William du Font's Fairy Hill, a 14-to-1 outsider; the rich Santa Anita Derby for three-year-olds; at Arcadia, Calif.'s Santa Anita Park. Winner's take was $45,425. Mrs. Ethel Mars's Military took second & $10,000; Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Ptolemy took third...
...William Frederick Gericke of the University of California. Set out in row's at the University's plant experiment station in Berkeley are a number of shallow tanks made of wood, concrete, metal. From some of these tanks grow thick, towering clumps of tomato plants bearing rich red clusters of fruit. From other tanks and in an equal state of vigor grow potatoes, tobacco, gladioli, begonias. The roots of the plants are not in soil but in chemically treated water...