Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LETTERS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON-Edited by Ralph Leslie Rusk-Columbia (6 vols...
...Henry Adams, Henry James, John Hay, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Last week readers who could spare the price could look at all the Emerson letters they were ever likely to want, in six good-looking, gilt and salmon-pink volumes. Of these letters, claims Editor Ralph Leslie Rusk, 2,313 have never been printed before...
After they had taken up their posts through the field Governor Sterling proclaimed martial law, ordered every one of the 1,600 flush wells in the 2,815 sq. mi. of Upshur. Gregg, Rusk and Smith Counties shut down. Last week this field, running wide open, produced an all-time record of 738,000 bbl. This week under the Governor's orders they were to produce not a barrel. Proclaimed Governor Sterling...
...watch the busy bakers baking. And in the art department he may see draughtsmen carefully designing new products, submitting them to cutters for mechanical approval. For while a good 50% of the company's business is in staples with large consumption (Lorna Doone Shortbreads, Slim Jim Pretzel Sticks, Holland Rusk, Butter Wafers, Snow Peaks) much of it goes into 500 varieties of biscuits and cookies which enjoy the public's favor briefly and are discontinued, replaced. Last year Nabisco withdrew 150 varieties, sent out a similar number of new ones. The problems involved are many in addition to those...
Where oil is struck, there is a boom. Where there is a boom there is easy money and to it flock swindlers, 'leggers, dope-sellers, gamblers, prostitutes and pimps. In eastern Texas last month oil began to gush out of Rusk and Gregg Counties (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week in Gregg County, the town of Kilgore and the nearby tent-town of "Little Juarez" had grown so rowdy, so full of wastrels and misconduct, that the Texas Rangers had to take a hand. Five Rangers came up from the Rio Grande, five more converged on Kilgore from other parts...