Word: alger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slocum. If no trucks can come home less than 75% loaded, what will happen to the specialized operators (beer, ice cream, etc.) whose equipment is designed for one-way delivery? Helen is such a case. Her specialty is so important that an exception may be made. An off-center Alger heroine, she delivers Navy boats...
...husband Lawrence delivered new cars on a haul-away trailer out of Detroit ten years ago, and business was terrible. One day she "read in the paper about some boat races, and got to wondering how they hauled these boats around." Later she heard that Yachtsman Russell A. Alger Jr. was going to take 13 new sloops from Detroit to Charlevoix, Mich., asked...
...Class Odist who provides the humor at the graduation exercises, reciting his ode to the tune of Fair Harvard. T. S. Eliot '10, Horatio Alger, Jr. '52, Dean Chase '96, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, are a few of the men who have written odes in the long history of Class...
Despite his tender years, Dart is already an ex-Alger hero. Tall, blond, blue-eyed, handsome, he played football at Northwestern University, graduated in 1929, went to work as a stockroom clerk in a Walgreen store in Chicago, married Ruth Walgreen, the founder's daughter, and rose to be general manager of Walgreen Co. By last year he had been divorced from the founder's daughter and quit...
...Ohio farmer. Sherwood and his sister and his brothers were deeply poor children of an irresponsible father. In his early 20s he enlisted and served a tame, funny, delightfully told few weeks in the Spanish-American War. In his hunger for money, he also developed an Alger-boy slickness which he was later to regret; worked at odd-jobs, with race horses, in factories, writing advertising copy; became at length a paint manufacturer and the respectable head of a respectable family...