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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early 1920s, Martin-Parry Corp. was a big U. S. manufacturer of commercial car bodies, for a few years grossed up to $5,000,000 annually. Its founder and president is tall, fretting, blue-eyed Frederick M. Small, son of the town's richest man, who went through Yale, returned to set up his own candy factory, and before he was 22 employed 200 men. Now he is 61, and since 1927 Martin-Parry Corp. has lost money every year. That year Henry Ford changed over from Model T to Model A, and Martin-Parry, with a big stock...
Mozart: Symphony No. 36 (K. 425) (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 7 sides). Latest and richest Mozart vintage, brilliantly bottled...
Miss Campbell's constituents, who live in Johnson County's richest township, are farmers, mostly young, with large families. She urges all her boys to go to high school. One of her girl graduates is a beauty shop operator in Iowa City, another is doing housework in Evanston, Ill., saving up to study nursing...
...dovetailing corners of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma lie the richest lead and zinc beds in the U. S. There a score of "TriState" towns house 100,000 miners and their families. Typical is Zincville in Ottawa County, Okla. Its battered shacks, pieced together out of tar paper and packing cases, nestle close to glittering mountains of "chat," or quartz dust, the "offal of the mines."On blustery days, wind whips and swirls the stinging quartz dust through the streets and into the houses. Constant inhalation of quartz dust causes silicosis...
...Netherlands has the richest share: Sumatra, Java, the Celebes, most of Borneo, half of Timor and of New Guinea...