Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unique feature of the library is its advertisement collection, in which students who are preparing themselves for berths in advertisement agencies may study the growth of this field from the days when one Benjamin Franklin was urging an unwary public to try the "new, swift coaches to Philadelphia" down to our modern style of ads with the American public daily engrossed in the adventures of the young couple whose romance was blighted until a kind friend mentioned Lifebuoy...
...wished, Manager Cochrane could have supported his second contention with his first baseman, Henry Benjamin Greenberg, who is probably the outstanding player on the Tigers this year, certainly the leading homerun hitter in both leagues and the ablest Jew in baseball. A New Yorker who learned to bat with a broomstick in side-street one-o'-cat games, he was offered a job with the Yankees in 1930, shrewdly refused it because he foresaw small chance of replacing First Baseman Lou Gehrig. He quit New York University at the end of his first semester to join the Tigers...
...Soon three of them were forced down by minor troubles. The remaining five pressed on, managed to finish. First to swoop down over the 2,500 hardy enthusiasts who braved a Cleveland drizzle was Mister Mulligan, a white, high-wing monoplane designed, owned and flown by meticulous Benjamin Odell ("Benny"') Howard. Jumping from his plane, Pilot Howard stilled congratulations with: "I haven't won yet." He was right. Hard-driving Colonel Turner, Bendix winner in 1933, had started almost two hours later, was hot on his heels, had an excellent chance of beating Mister Mulligan's time...
Chairman Taylor's fourth major policy is at first blush paradoxical, involving both centralization and decentralization. Carnegie and Illinois Steels will be united under the control of a new organization, headed by Benjamin F. Fairless, a school-master-turned-steelmaster and now executive vice president of Steel Corp.'s second biggest competitor, Republic Steel. Steelmaster Fairless, however, will make his headquarters not in Manhattan but in Pittsburgh and will probably rule the most autonomous province in Steel's sprawling empire...
...last week warned Dr. Benjamin Talbott Brooks, 50, independent consulting chemist of Manhattan, as the American Chemical Society opened its meeting in San Francisco. Dr. Brooks wanted to make his point especially clear to people who suppose that oil under U. S. ground will last hundreds of years. Distinguishing between shortage and actual exhaustion, Dr. Brooks, famed in his profession for research on refining methods, foresaw that oil dearth would be upon the nation in from five to eight years...