Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face as wrinkled as a walnut, Nathan Amster says he is "in the financial business." He emigrated to the U. S. at 20, prospected in West Virginia coal fields, drifted west, developed rich copper claims. Wall Street has known him as an independent financier and market operator. He was one of the first men to bull Boston & Maine during the early stages of its rehabilitation. Always keenly aware of the value of publicity, he once advocated consolidation of all U. S. railroads into one huge system...
Officials of the club stated that they had over 8000 rounds of ammunition on hand, both .30 and .22 calibre. Shooting will start today when members of the Executive Committee will take new men out to the Walnut Hill range in Woburn...
Extensive facilities are available at the Walnut Hill Bange for .30, .22, and pistol shooting...
...Palace, joking Prince Umberto said that it was haunted, that ghostly footsteps could be heard at night. They have been heard. Naples laughed last week with her popular practical joker. His Royal Highness had been making "ghost footsteps" by letting loose in the Palace at night a cat with walnut shells tied to its feet...
...first interest. Fie was manager of Woolson Spice Co. when the Havemeyer interests bought it in 1899. He went into the brokerage business, then in 1907 organized F. H. Bennett Biscuit Co. At the time he had not heard of a tung tree, nor of the rich oil its walnut-like nuts yield. But in 1905 seeds for the first tung tree in the U. S. had been brought from Hankow and planted in the Department of Agriculture's experimental farm at Chico, Calif. In 1907 seeds were also planted in Florida...