Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in the brooding eloquence that springs so naturally from his Welsh heritage, John L. Lewis declared: "Out of the agony and travail of economic America the C. I. O. was born. To millions of Americans, exploited without stint by corporate industry and socially debased beyond the understanding of the fortunate, its coming was as welcome as the dawn to the night watcher. . . . It is now and henceforth a definite instrumentality destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal course of the Republic...
Eleven years ago the general manager of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.'s electric storage battery factory, George E. Stringfellow. yelled into Edison's less deaf ear: "Mr. Edison, would you be willing to continue as consultant for the battery company after you passed to the Great Beyond." Said Edison: "You are crazy." Shouted Stringfellow: ''It might work. You invented this battery, and in your mind there is information about it that no one else has. Will you let the stall give you written questions about the battery every Saturday afternoon before you go home? You could...
...droll musicians of St. Paul, Minn., who play under the name of the Schnickelfritz Band and whose chief assets are two trunkfuls of funny hats and a large supply of wigs, beards and spectacles. Night after night people lined up to pay 25? and crowd the Midway Club beyond its capacity (250) just to watch Leader Freddie Fisher & colleagues do their odd stuff. On the strength of their antics their Decca records, without any special promotion, were selling well throughout the U. S. The first four had sold out entirely in Chicago. And as they perspired through their nightly routine...
...Water Works & Electric Co. ($384,000,000) consented to drop their litigation and register with SEC. Since then the number of companies registered has reached $6, representing assets of $5,000,000,000 out of a total of $17,000,000,000 in all companies affected by the Act. Beyond this there had been no public developments in this battle of the pyramids until last week when American Water Works offered SEC a plan for the simplification of its corporate structure...
...France-better known as the provinces-which is not Paris. Claude starts off with as much gloomy naturalism as the drabbest of them, and for the first 50 pages a normally cheerful reader may turn up his coat collar, wish it would stop raining. But if he perseveres beyond this chilling introduction he will soon feel such warming rays as will make his coat unnecessary. By book's end he will have been acclimatized to the varied weather of a whole human...