Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huey, the Harvard CRIMSON's high-priced Chinese prophet, were served suit today by the Martini Company for breach of contract. The famous vermouth manufacturers charge that Dr. Huey had agreed to endorse their cocktail ingredient, but had broken his contract to endorse Angostura bitters, Sunkist oranges, Gordon water, and two tea-spoonfuls of sugar...
...surprising that the oyster's prodigal fertility has generated a vigorous industry. No other fishery product is as valuable. Of pure water, minus shell and waste matter, 73,000 tons, worth $14,000,000, are marketed annually. Their food equivalent is the meat of 250,000 steers. A million acres of oyster land are under cultivation; at least another million are natural oyster farms...
Second idea was to specialize in municipal bonds. In 1867 Mr. Harris had traveled through the south and west, had seen countless small but growing towns and cities. Farsighted, he looked ahead, saw the school houses, water works, roads, bridges, sewage plants and other public works of the future. Shrewd, he saw also the billions of dollars in bond issues that these communities would need. "I did not tell even my brother my estimates," he once said, "for fear he would think I was out of my head...
...California, onetime helper of U. S. Artist Rockwell Kent. In the Kent Manhattan household she lived for a year, working on colored illustrations for Voltaire's Candide. Later she went to southern France, hired a peasant's house, planned to stay and paint. The house had no hot water, no heating, no light; Artist Robinson fell sick, returned to Los Angeles, whence she went to Mexico City...
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., president of General Motors Corp., watched his new million-dollar yacht, Rene, slide into the water at Wilmington, Del. Rene is the diminutive of Mrs. Sloan's name (Irene...