Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present locomotive which the Timken Co. has ordered from the American Locomotive Co. and will test on roads throughout the country has roller bearings on the driving and tender wheels and on the connection between the main and side rod. If successful it would make good the boast: "Throughout industry the 'impossible' has yielded to Timken design, construction and resources." To the railroads it would bring lower operating costs and the riding comfort that the public, accustomed to buying every luxury desired, is starting to demand from railroads...
...chief interest to each convention were the problems facing that particular industry and tactics to be employed in the future. Thus while the American Bankers' Association mulled over the credit situation, members of American Bakers' Association in Chicago discussed the advisability of having a national doughnut week soon and announced crackers in the shape of states to tempt, to educate unruly infants...
Authentic these facts are, for last week the American Institute of Steel Construction worked them out after a two-year study. Employed in the long study were William Clifford Clark, chief economist of S. W. Straus & Co., and a group of skilled architects, construction engineers, elevator engineers, steel men, electricians, plumbers, rental agents, building managers...
Chairman of the Engineering Foundation is Henry Hobart Porter who is also president of the American Water Works & Electric Co., Inc. When 2,300,000 people in 195 communities in 16 states turn on their tap water, when 1,900,000 people in 1,275 communities in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio ride on trolley car or bus, these people are using water power or electricity provided by Mr. Porter's company. Stock holders in Mr. Porter's company know that its outstanding common stock value has risen $196,000,000 this year, that the total...
...American Medical Association published in its Journal last week an analysis of the nicotine content of certain specific brands of pipe, cigar and cigaret tobaccos...