Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reason three Canadian pulp and paper companies which combined last week estimated their 80,000,000-cord reserve as a practically perpetual supply. The companies, long closely affiliated, were Canada Power & Paper Corp. (which recently disposed of Laurentide Power Co. for $10,800,000, and is said to have placed the money in the call market), Port Alfred Pulp and Paper Corp. (owners of the town of Port Alfred), Wayagamack Pulp and Paper Co., Ltd. (specializing in kraft [wax] wrapping paper...
Again General Pershing was queried. This time he seemed not so sure. "Why should I be obliged to say . . ." said he. It appeared that Crier Woollcott, his reputation safe, deserved no ducking...
...ringside the shocking realization that he was unconscious. Later that night after Sharkey, jubilant, had gone to a nightclub with his wife, the rumor that Loughran had died of the punch on his way out of the stadium led friends to call up his manager, one Joseph Smith, who said "Oh my God, no, no, no." Sharkey claims the world's heavyweight championship, but to make his claim good must beat Max Schmeling, now resting at home in Germany...
Birthday. Georges Clemenceau, French War Prime Minister; at St. Vincent-sur-Jard. Age: 88. Said he: "My mother lived to be 83 years old, my father, 87. At 88, I am in the danger zone. I do not ask for death, neither do I fear it. I await it. I shall die this year...
...Wann, Okla., Rancher Al Gottlieb told how his pastures were parched with drought, how his 500 steers refused to eat the yellow grass, became lean. He went to Kansas City, said he bought 500 pairs of green goggles, fitted them on the steers. Then they ate ravenously, grew...