Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small Methodist Trinity College to move to Durham from a North Carolina village in 1892 by giving it $85,000, made it co-educational five years later by giving $100,000 more. When, in 1924, Buck Duke made little Trinity the tenth richest university in the land (endowment today: $30,000,000), it was glad not only to take his name but also to let him reshape it to his heart's desire...
...Duke today has a sumptuously equipped medical school and a hospital (largest in the South) that has treated more than 110,000 patients, schools of religion, law (some of whose students ostentatiously study in log cabins), nursing, forestry and graduate studies, a college for women on a separate, Georgian campus. Tobacco, source of Duke's wealth, is not neglected: a laboratory conducts constant research in prevention of tobacco diseases, improvement of cigaret paper...
...Owned since 1933 by Eugene Meyer, onetime Federal Reserve Board governor, the Post today calls itself independent, is a lively opponent of the New Deal. Circulation...
...Today Thompsons can be made for $50 to $60 each, sold at $200 to $225. Well-grounded in military tactics, well-acquainted with soldiering men, rumpled, Kentucky-born Colonel Marcellus Thompson sees the day near when there will be a Thompson in every infantry squad, a chopper or two in every armored car. Pacifists still object to war, but few of them still object to arming against it. Old General Thompson, living among his memories in the modest home of his son at Great Neck, L. I., will have some advice to give as an unofficial technical consultant...
...merry one," became president. Son Henry Centennial (who died in 1934), "the quiet one," became secretary-treasurer. "Mr. N. G."-"the grave one"-became chairman of the board. "Mr. N. G." in 1903 hit on the profitable idea of selling Richman Bros. $22.50 suits direct to wearer. Today the company operates 62 stores in 57 cities, keeps a mailing list of 1,000,000 purchasers of Richman suits...