Word: tennes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MORGAN Memphis, Tenn...
Even George Berry's enemies admit that everything about him is big. He has been president since 1907 of the International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America (50,000 members). He owns the biggest color-label printing plant in the U. S., at Rogersville, Tenn., and outside Rogersville the biggest farm in the Southeast (30,000 acres). It was thus a foregone conclusion that when George Berry began buying up mineral leases among farmers in the area later flooded by the TVA's Norris Dam, the marble he was looking for would turn...
Forty years ago, when the U. S. was fighting Spain, an enterprising Tennessean, Samuel Evans Massengill, then 27 and not yet graduated from the University of Nashville Medical School, decided to manufacture drugs for doctors rather than practice medicine himself. His business, established in Bristol, Tenn., grew until it had $300,000 in assets. Then, two months ago, fatality knocked at its door. A new mixture of a new drug (sulfanilamide) with a new solvent (diethylene glycol), which Dr. Massengill's salesmen sold as Elixir Sulfanilamide-Massengill, was discovered to be killing its users (TIME...
...Nashville, Tenn. Dudley Leigh Aman Baron Marley, deputy speaker of Britain's House of Lords, watched his first U. S. football game. His comment: "The game is considerably slower than our rugby because of the frequent little committee meetings in which the players indulge...
Southeastern Conference. At Nashville, Tenn., a Vanderbilt team which had been defeated only once this season (by Georgia Tech) and had defeated such noteworthy teams as Southern Methodist, Louisiana State and Tennessee, romped onto the field to play unbeaten, untied Alabama. As the game drew to a close, it looked as if Vanderbilt and Alabama would each end the season with one defeat: the score stood 7-to-6 in Vanderbilt's favor. Then Alabama's portly Coach Thomas waved Haywood ("Sandy") Sanford, 200-lb. sophomore, into the game. The ball lay on Vanderbilt...