Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inland. Fifty miles west of Palm Beach lies Lake Okeechobee in the tangled Everglades. It is 45 miles long. The surrounding country is lower than the lake and is protected by dikes. There are hundreds of small farms, sugar cane fields, blackamoor shacks. During the hurricane Lake Okeechobee burst the dikes. The rich land became a morass; in certain places water rose to the height of 10 feet. Hundreds, mostly Negroes, were drowned. Relief workers found the water filled with floating bodies, so decomposed that skin color was no longer determinable. One surviving family had lived on peanuts for three...
Princeton had Col. Augustus Trowbridge, physicist, as dean of the graduate school, to succeed Andrew Fleming West, resigned. Harvey L. Lutz, famed in Europe as a public finance expert, went from Stanford University...
...Post Office officials opened for the second time bids to supply the U. S. with 12,800,000,000 stamped envelopes, its quota for the next four years (TIME, Aug. 20, Sept. 17). Once before bids had been opened and rejected. This time figures were much lower. The Middle West Supply Co., now holding the contract, offered an estimate of $13,314.954-98. But the International Envelope Co., subsidiary of International Paper, underbid its rival by $105,161.18. International Envelope won the contract...
...Mercantile Corp. won the non and lucrative U. S. stamped envelope contract, making a tidy profit for Stockholder Myron Charles Taylor, now a potent U. S. Steel executive.* Not until 1917 was the contract wrested away from the Mercantile Corp. In that year, the Middle West Supply Co. submitted low bid. And as this contract is not transferable, the only way for the Mercantile Corp. and Stockholder Taylor to regain it was to buy the Middle West Supply Co. This they did. They were not again disturbed in its possession until last week...
...there had been rumblings in 1924. At that time, International Paper made an ill-prepared attempt to oust the well-entrenched Middle West Supply Co. Stockholder Taylor had retired from active management. International paper's bid, while some 15% lower than the previous contract price, was about 5% higher than the bid of Middle West Supply. International Paper bided its time, waited...