Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board the Dutch liner Manoeran and packed them off to the U. S. The anoas traveled well. Every day they had their regular diet of hay and grain, same as any other cow. Last week they arrived in San Diego where delighted Zoo Hospital Chief L. F. Conti took them in charge, put them in 30-day quarantine. "They are behaving wonderfully," he chuckled, "gentle as kittens...
...year-old William S. Gubelmann (National Cash Register Co.). Joseph Conrad, older (1882), smaller (116 ft.), chunkier, was also a training ship-used by the Danish Government for 52 years. Three years ago Author-Adventurer Alan Villiers saw her in Copenhagen, heard she was for sale, snapped her up. took a crew of eight nationalities on a picaresque world cruise, wrote a book about it (Cruise of the Conrad), then sold the ship to 24-year-old George Huntington Hartford II. A. & P. (chain stores) scion. Both ships still carried age-browned canvas last week but their quarters have been...
...some 273,000 shares of stock registered last year by Trenton Valley Distillers Corp., a sizable company with a plant at Detroit, which is now closed. It was discovered first that the stock had not been sold through the underwriters named in the registration statement; further, that the company took $1 a share for stock which was at that time selling for $3 over-the-counter in Detroit. The difference was apparently absorbed by no less than four sets of middle men and at least two go-betweens, who contradicted one another in testimony, alternately claiming and disclaiming innocence...
Director Lubitsch's legendary experiment is not so fantastic as it sounds. Mushrooms, which sprout overnight, sprout erratically. Until an Irish Quaker from West Chester, Pa. took a hand in the procedure 33 years ago, mushroom growing was a matter of almost pure chance. Last week the industry Edward Henry Jacob built up from, a six-foot plot in his cellar was the largest mushroom business in the U. S., and it was busy reaping the harvest from history's most important single improvement in mushroom growing...
...public taste in decoration from sanitation to esthetics and (after Brother Samuel's death) Brother William 's espousal of vegetarianism put Childs on the skids. In 1929, after a grim fight for proxy control. Chairman Childs was forced out and General Counsel William A. Barber took his place. He and a new president, William Porter Allen, modernized both Childs restaurants and Childs food. White tiles yielded to Puritan, even to Moorish decorations with dance orchestras and goldfish ponds. Meat returned to the menu and instead of vegetarian dogma Childs sponsored a noisy campaign...