Word: wound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly the kind of African Colonist Rhodes wanted was Major Geoffrey Selwyn who went to Kenya in 1920 with £1,700, an old wound and his indomitable Wife Helen Eugenie. He bought a farm in northwest Kenya near Eldoret, a town of some 700 Dutch-speaking Boers who trekked once more into the hinterland when Britain conquered the Transvaal. Eldoret has one of the British Empire's highest railway stations (7,000 ft.), just north of the Equator. Only 100 mi. to the southwest is vast Lake Victoria. The climate is bracing but wet. The blacks outnumber the whites...
President Kramer was a troubleshooting merchandiser, an associate director in Amos Parish & Co., director of Hahn Department Stores. He promptly bought out Corticelli, one of Belding's few spool silk competitors, concentrated production in the efficient Putnam, Conn, plants, scrapped the unprofitable fabric and hosiery manufacturing division, wound up last year with a $500,000 profit. He continued to make money this year, paid off a bond issue. Last week the Belding Heminway directors declared a 50? dividend - their first in six years...
Died. Ruggiero Eugenio di Rudolpho ("Russ") Columbo, 26, radio crooner, cinemactor, composer ("You Call It Madness but I Call It Love," "Is It Love?" "Now I Know It's Love"); of a bullet wound incurred while examining a Civil War pistol with a friend; in Los Angeles...
Most distasteful to Italy's Cupid was a grave irregularity last week at Avellino. Rosino Consolazio, 19, agreed with her fiance Montalberti Filcorate, 23, to end their engagement in a duel. On the field of honor she shot him through the head, received a flesh wound in the cheek...
...tramped into a private dining room, sat down to a banquet at which no one made a speech. For five days they haggled over code chiselers, discussed new ideas on designs, talked about cashing in on their backlog. Gravestone sellers all, members of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, they wound up their annual convention in the hotel taproom and went home with schemes for carving out more business from the living and the dead...