Word: builder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse. But the pious story which Dickens wrote for his children proved to be an eminent success. It increased the circulation of newspapers using it by an aggregate 1,000,000. an average of 10% per paper. Manager Monte Bourjaily of United Feature hailed it as "the greatest circulation builder of all time," better even than the War photographs lately in vogue (TIME...
...agrees thoroughly with Captain Liddell Hart's theory of small armies of technical experts is Germany's General Hans von Seeckt, builder of the Rcichswchr. Because of the Nazi cry for a great army General von Seeckt is at present very much out of the German political picture...
...extraordinary gathering that approved such a modest financial report. It included George J. Mead, director of United Aircraft, who last month told a Senate Committee how his $207 investment zoomed to a paper profit of $7,800,000; Glenn L. Martin, builder of swift Army bombers; Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, builder of Navy airships and head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's department of mechanical engineering; Dr. Theodor von Karman, famed Hungarian aerodynamicist in charge of aeronautics research at California Tech; Willis Ray Gregg, new No. 1 U. S. Weatherman; Elmer A. Sperry of gyroscope fame and many...
Frederick Henry Prince is generally regarded as New England's richest citizen and Boston's crustiest celebrity. Hard-bitten son of a Democratic Boston mayor, he quit Harvard to enter the brokerage business, married the daughter of a wealthy waterworks builder, quickly became one of State Street's most spectacular figures. His firm of F. H. Prince &; Co. installed the first stockticker in Boston. In the 1890's he developed Chicago Junction Railway, which he later leased for 99 years to New York Central for an annual rental of $2,000,000. and bought up Chicago...
Married. Anna Hope Dale Biddle, 31, footloose Philadelphia socialite; and William Starling Burgess, 54, yacht & airplane designer, builder of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup defender Enterprise, co-designer of the Dymaxion car; in Reno, immediately after she divorced Edward M. Biddle, Philadelphia lawyer, on grounds of cruelty. Returning from a spectacular Alaskan jaunt some two years ago, Mrs. Biddle complained that her friends snubbed her, called her a "hellcat'' for leaving her husband and three small children. It was Mr. Burgess' fourth marriage...