Word: starks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Stark evidence appeared last week further to puzzle investigators seeking to untangle the mystery of Long Island Sound, the Collings Case. From the drifting, lightless cabin cruiser Penguin one night had disappeared a young inventor, Benjamin P. Collings, and his younger, pretty wife, Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, leaving their 5-year-old daughter Barbara to be picked up by passing fishermen. Next morning Mrs. Collings was found half-hysterical in the anchored launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck, L. I. To police she told a strange story of how two mysterious men in a canoe, one about...
Before Luther Burbank died (April 11, 1926) he publicly expressed doubt about his personal immortality. He was more hopeful about the future of his experiments. Very carefully he labeled his seeds, left record of his problems. Two old U. S. concerns?W. Atlee Burpee Co. (seeds) of Philadelphia and Stark Brothers (fruit trees and shrubs) of Louisiana, Mo. will work in their separate fields to give Burbank's work the immortality self-denied to Burbank...
When Burbank died, by his direction his entire business was taken over by Stark Brothers. Last fortnight it was announced that they had sold the seed portion of the estate to the Burpee firm, keeping for themselves the nursery activities. The work will continue at Burbank's Santa Rosa gardens. Living there and watching will be Luther Burbank's widow. The notes he kept scrupulously, unlike many scientists, she has guarded scrupulously, unlike many widows. The notes, the seeds, the bulbs she is turning over to David Burpee...
More famed even than the Burpees are the Starks who came less recently into the Burbank activities. Judge James Stark, home from the War of 1812, founded the company in the territory explored (1806-07) by General Zebulon Pike which then stretched from the Mississippi to the Santa Fe. Today the Stark organization maintains the oldest nurseries in the U. S., the largest in the world. On 3,992 acres, in plantations located in seven States they propagate fruit trees, roses, shrubs. In France, too, they maintain nurseries. They employ nearly a thousand men and women. About 15.000 commission salesmen...
First need this year, reported the Council last week, is relief. But then "are we to continue indefinitely to drift . . . through lack of any adequate social planning? . . . Our economic life now seems to be without a chart." Chief trouble is the present distribution of wealth: "the stark contrast of vast fortunes and breadlines." The average worker earns (according to 1927 statistics) $23.17 a week; millions fall below the average. Of all the wealth in the U. S. in 1921, 33% was owned by 1% of the population; 64% by 10%. Society treats the needy in these times as if they...