Word: wooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Past Recaptured: a wood panel with cracked, dim paint counterfeiting a 14th-Century relic, on which a pink and grey form swam outward as the artist's face...
...shares of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. In 1929 Continental sold as high as $1,020 a share. In 1933 a share of Continental could be bought for precisely $1,000 less; Mr. Johnson's National Life Insurance Co. was, not surprisingly, in receivership. General Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co., which sells about everything else, decided that this was the time to go into the life insurance business. He formed Hercules Life Insurance Co. and applied to the court for the contract to reinsure National Life's 112,000 policyholders. Along with the 112,000 policies...
Last week Sears, Roebuck's Wood announced that Hercules Life had been sold to Occidental Life. The price: a secret, at least until approved by authorities. Hercules had been "doing all right," said General Wood, but "you can't sell life insurance through a catalogue...
...said to have earned $1,000,000 from duck pictures alone; Edward Herbert Miner's Man o' War and Four of His Famous Get; the winter canvases of A. Sheldon Pennoyer, who dashes down ski slopes as easily as he dashes off brush strokes; big-game wood carvings by Blackfoot Indian John Louis Clarke (Man-Who-Talks...
...case of the misused PWA money: Because of irregularities in the expenditure of PWA money for college buildings, the university had to return $32,000 to the U. S. Government. Particularly pointed were alumni references to the mystery of the "missing" lumber, $545 worth of PWA wood which President Johnson was accused of having spirited away at dead of night...