Word: bending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ears at all corners & crannies of the bathroom at Angmering-on-Sea. The overflow drain of the bathtub told the story. Next morning Sir Richard examined the pipe. It was about 1 1/6 in. in diameter, about 3 ft. 5 in. long, in the form of an S-bend. At the tub end of the tube was a perforated waste guard. The other end of the tube was open and passed through the wall to let the tub water run out onto the open ground. Sir Richard put his lips to the pipe's open end, blew...
...Army, Navy and Marines because of a heart lesion. (He had twelve varsity letters for athletics, had been physical director at Montclair Academy, N. J. for two years.) For the air service "Casey" was examined by an enormously fat doctor who tried to show how he wanted Jones to bend over, jump up & down. "Casey" guffawed, pointed to his record as physical instructor. Flustered, the doctor passed...
...funeral of his father, George Hoffman who was head of Hoffman Specialty Co. (valves & machinery) and who ran it well for years despite the fact that its plant was in Hartford, Conn. and his home in Pasadena. But mainspring of Studebaker is its Mr. Erskine, first citizen of South Bend. He was with the company as treasurer when the present corporation was formed in 1911. In 1915 he succeeded Frederick Samuel Fish as president. Under him Studebaker did its $24,000,000 War business (saddles, wagons, harness as well as cars...
...Goldman, Sachs & Co., and now a member of Lehman Brothers sits on its board. Best known members of the profuse Studebaker family at present are Col. George Studebaker, son of Founder Clement Studebaker, and his brother Clement. Neither is connected with the company. Wealthy Col. Studebaker founded South Bend Watch Co., Studebaker Mail Order Co. (watches) and has been "angel" to Colin B. Kennedy Corp. (radio). His brother showed a flair for utilities, is president of North American Light & Power Co. (Insull sub-sidiary?See below...
...bank investments in Peoples Trust & Savings (being liquidated), A. B. Leach & Co. (being liquidated) and Hill, Joiner & Co. It also had an investment in Chicago Opera Shops Building, storehouse for the Opera's stage sets and costumes. Among its receivables are $300,000 in notes secured by South Bend real estate and signed by George M. Studebaker and Clement Studebaker Jr. Another receivable is 50¢ borrowed by Martin Insull...