Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After church and the mammoth noonday Christmas dinner-when "Grandpa" carves a 40-pound turkey-the fun really begins. Seated by the tree, and giving advice on horn-blowing technique to the jumping urchins, the President and the family attack the gift piles with cries of genuine or simulated delight, get lost in the billows of wrapping paper, like many another American family...
...self-perpetuating education"--which, translated, means inspired to go on, informally, and learn on their own initiative--that President Conant conceived of the American Civilization Plan. On another front, the University of Chicago is attacking the problem by exposing susceptible freshmen to the grand sweep of Knowledge--through mammoth survey courses such as Civilization I. Educators, or the best of them, know of the disease, and are attacking it; but quietly, perhaps unconsciously, students are themselves making the greatest inroads. They are doing so through increased participation in extracurricular activities...
Since 1934 Chicago's mammoth Marshall Field & Co., depression-riven, has had its face lifted. Shorn of its wholesale division, many a retail outlet and mill, the company turned a 1937 deficit of $1,654,452 into a 1938 profit of $3,492,238. Last week, with three-quarters earnings of $1,718,458 up 58% from 1938, blue-eyed chubby-cheeked President Frederick Dexter Corley offered a plan and a plum to stockholders...
...textile fibers take time to demonstrate which parts of the mammoth fiber market properly belong to them. Unlike Du Pont's nylon, which is mostly aimed at silk hosiery trade, Vinyon appears to be aimed at more varied markets...
...nine riotous years the late Huey Long's Louisiana State University seemed the answer to a collegian's dream. Upon his students the Kingfish lavished two luxurious athletic stadia, a huge gymnasium, a mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year...