Word: stones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week found three men to serve on his Federal Farm Board: James Clifton Stone of Lexington, Ky. (tobacco), Carl Williams of Oklahoma City (cotton), C. B. Denman of Farmington. Mo. (live stock). He hoped he would get three others, to whom he had publicly offered appointments: Alexander Legge of Chicago (business), W. S. Moscrip of St. Elmo, Minn, (dairy), Charles C. Teague of Los Angeles (fruit). The President was having difficulty finding No. 1 men for his board. An able No. 2 man might make his mark on the board but the President knew the board required...
Gravrilo Princip and Nadelko Cabrinovite were the students who killed the Archduke & his Duchess. Their bodies, with those of 26 of their fellow conspirators, lie in a great stone vault, unmarked out of regard for Austrian feeling. Here solemn hero services were held last week...
...Pocantico Hills, N. Y., is an estate called "Kijkuit" (Dutch for "Keep Out"). There, in the summertime, behind stone walls, barbed wire and grilled iron, lives the Richest Man. Thither he returned last week from Lakewood, N. J., his annual intermediate stop between the North and Florida. The bed from which he rises at 7 is crumbless, for at "Kijkuit" no one may breakfast abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin...
...public was given last week an opportunity to purchase stock in Stone & Webster, Inc., potent builders and operators of U. S. public utilities. To the public went an offering of 400,000 shares of Stone & Webster, Inc., newly organized as a Delaware corporation. To present large stockholders went 175.000 additional shares. Priced at $100, the new stock im mediately sold "when, as and if" above $107. The new financing will create a 100-million-dollar corporation. Control will remain with the founders, Charles Augustus Stone and Edwin Sibley Webster...
...Stone & Webster, Inc., has built power stations representing 10% of the total central station capacity of the U. S., supplying 20 million U. S. inhabitants with light and power. It has also built many an office building, factory, hotel, and the present Massachusetts Institute of Technology building in Cambridge. Directorate of the new company will include Joseph P. Grace, Board Chairman of W. R. Grace & Co. ; Albert H. Wiggin, Board Chairman of Chase National Bank; Herbert L. Pratt, Board Chairman of Standard Oil of New York...