Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles. Ben M. Lefner sued for divorce on the grounds that his wife refused to live anywhere except in a trailer...
...suave, handsome bachelor who made his fortune in the city side of mining and who sports one of the show places of Toronto, where he entertains everyone from Ontario's rambunctious Premier Mitchell F. ("Mitch") Hepburn to visiting U. S. stockmarketeers like Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith...
Particularly praiseworthy in Harlow's mind has been the effort and improvement of several "dark horse" Yardlings. Many of these men are playing in new positions and seem to have benefitted from the change. Among the men who have shown up well are Bill Coleman, Holie Wood. Ed Daniels, Ben Wood. Mose Hallett, Dauk Curtis, Gus Soule, Peter Thompson, and Pinkey Winslow...
Forty-one years ago in dingy Pigeon Run, Ohio, when Ben Fairless was 5, his father swore that the boy should never go into the mines. He never did. After high school he taught until he had some money saved, then went off to study engineering at the College of Wooster and Ohio Northern University. Up, up, up the industrial ladder he climbed-vice president & general manager of United Alloy Co. at 36, president of Central Alloy Steel Corp. soon thereafter, executive vice president of Republic Steel at 40. Finally, at 45, the boy from Pigeon Run became president...
...London, Western Clock Co., makers of Big Ben alarm clocks, of La Salle, Ill., was enjoined from advertising its products in Britain as "made by makers of Big Ben" upon the complaint the of E. Dent & Co., Ltd., which made famed Big Ben atop the Houses of Parliament, named upon completion in 1858 for Commissioner of Works Sir Benjamin Hall...