Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kidney, brain, fat, bone marrow, veal, lamb, pork, chicken, meat broths, black tea, water. They lived as ordinary city dwellers, except that they carefully walked an hour or so each day and occasionally ran about two and one-half miles. Their health remained excellent in all ways, leading New York's Eugene Floyd Du Bois, W. S. McClellan, H. J. Spencer and E. A. Falk, who studied them, to conclude that "in general white men, after they have become accustomed to the omission of other foods from their diet, may subsist on an exclusive meat diet in a temperate climate...
...National League baseball pitcher, holder of the all-time league record for game-winning (373)i member of the St. Louis Cardinals; to Nebraska on full pay for the balance of the season; by Club Owner Samuel Breadon; for breaking training after he lost a game to the New York Giants. He had an edge on every other team in the league. His career's score with the Giants finally stood: Alexander 39, Giants...
...circled. Swimmer Vivian Lee Welsh screamed, thrashed, floundered in the water. A large lamprey eel had fastened its horny teeth into her side. Shuddering with fright, writhing with cramps, she was lifted into a Red Cross rescue boat. At the end of the first lap Martha Norelius of New York, 1928 Olympic champion lately turned professional, led, with Ruth Tower of Toronto, within splashing distance. After four more laps exhausted competitors were being lifted into escorting boats...
Brother George, after he left St. Michael's College in Toronto, worked for Swift & Co. in Chicago, then for Quaker Oats. After a few years he set up as a broker (Morrow & Co.) in the New York Produce and Sugar Exchanges. He took a hand in Gold Dust Corp. of which he is now chairman. He was invited to reorganize American Cotton Oil Co. and did so with such effect that in about five years the value of the company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases...
...months ago R. H. Macy & Co. bought L. Bamberger & Co., great Newark department store (TIME, July 8), the price paid was not disclosed, was left to be inferred from Bamberger's earnings of $2,915,375 in 1928. Last week R. H. Macy filed application with the New York Stock Exchange to list 146.385 additional shares of stock. Of this number 69,210 shares (worth at the present market nearly $15,000,000) were given in part payment to the stockholders of L. Bamberger. The remaining 77,175 shares were offered at $145 to Macy stockholders, netting...