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...varnish makers, in whose business the oil is a main raw material and whose purchases of it from China are a large part of the $15,000,000 worth imported by the U. S., grew interested. In 1924 they formed American Tung Oil Corp. to start a 225-acre grove. Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, du Pont, Devoe & Raynolds, Pratt & Lambert and Benjamin Moore & Co. were among the experimenters. Then Benjamin Moore started a 1,900-acre grove of its own, set up an oil-extraction mill in Gainesville, 77 mi. southwest of Jacksonville...
...into a well, drowned. An Alabama farmer hung on a barbed-wire fence while the wind tore him to pieces. A Georgian sailed into a tree with a piece of wood through his arm, hung there helpless all night. One Tom Marcum went out in his yard at Piney Grove, Ala., picked up and returned somebody's receipt book to Northport, 16 miles away. At 4 p. m. the tornado struck the Tuscaloosa Country Club. At 4:15 p. m. members began rummaging among the ruins for their golf clubs...
...accepted by Britishers as a worthy epilog to a quiet, distinguished musical career. Fifty years ago Delius' parents did all they could to thwart their musical son. They wanted him for the stuff & yarn trade. When he refused they sent him to Florida to tend an orange grove. Thereafter Delius spent little time in England. He studied in Leipzig for a while, settled finally in France to write gentle, sombre music, much of it reminiscent of England...
...Athletics won three out of four games, convinced Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy that few new tactics were needed. His two rookies -Oscar Roettger at first base and Outfielder Ed Coleman-batted .400 or more. He had discovered a young right-handed pitcher, Joe Bowman, to supplement his seasoned staff of Grove, EarnshaW, WaLberg, Rommel and Mahaffey. The New York Yankees, the young Cleveland Indians, and the Washington Senators, a team of oldsters who have done surprisingly well for the last two years, were likely runners-up. Boston Red Sox seemed less able than usual to cope with consistent second-division teams...
...works of his brother and did likewise. He lifted up the poor and laid low the rich until at last the fathers at Rome rose up at his impudence and declared him "a public enemy." A mob sought him out in anger and found across the river in the grove of Furrina, Gaius' body lying beside his slave...