Word: sumatran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snakes, dangling frozen fish before crocodiles who had to be deluded into thinking they were catching them. By a triumph of nursing and nourishing they brought back alive 1,500 beasts of the field, forest and jungle, best of all 19 birds of paradise, two blue sheep, a Sumatran wild dog, four giraffes from the Sudan, and for Susie an eligible young husband named Wrestler who took delight in shaking hands...
...Rubber's stockholders early this month President Francis Breese Davis Jr. reported that their 76,563 acres of cultivated Sumatran and Malayan rubber trees last year yielded 42,185,000 Ib. of caoutchouc, earned $1,943,790 profit, twice the 1935 figure. More interesting to preferred stockholders, who have had no dividends for nine years* was the parent company's report. Net income for 1936 was $10,172,000, compared with 36,532,000 the year before. But the stockholders can hope for no dividends until U. S. Rubber Co.'s accumulated deficit is wiped out. Even...
...Gardens, an ape enthusiast, as an experimental breeding place. The Republic of Cuba doubtless remembered this offer when, short of funds with which to maintain the Villa Palatino, it last week consigned part of Senora Abreu's collection to the Philadelphia zoo. The shipment contained a family of Sumatran orangutans, a pair of lion-tailed monkeys, a pair of golden marmosets, a black Celebes ape and an African mandrill said to be the largest in captivity...
RANGO?Men & monkeys fighting as allies in the Sumatran jungles...
RANGO-Intelligent animal stuff from the Sumatran jungles...