Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WYSE Bucyrus Co., South Milwaukee, Wis. In a footnote, TIME, Sept. 26, said: "It has been said that 'Marion built the Panama Canal because these [the Marion Steam Shovel Co.'s] shovels were used extensively. . . ." To Bucyrus shovels all credit for their part. It must also be said that "South Milwaukee built the Panama Canal...
Harry F. Sinclair? once a druggist's lazy son in Independence, Kan., who one day shot himself in the foot while out hunting and from the accident insurance money built up an oil fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
...against producing "on tick" (credit), selling "on tick" and buying "on tick," the Parliamentary Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department, one Arthur M. Samuel, "ticked off" (reprimanded) a London Chamber of Commerce meeting for countenancing within the United Kingdom "the habit of installment buying," which he called "a trade built upon sand...
Power Appliances. Electrical refrigeration commercializes a device which the British scientist Lord Kelvin built 30 years ago. With a pump he compressed gases; the gases lost heat. He permitted the gases to expand into a chamber; they absorbed heat from neighboring objects. Such objects naturally grew colder with the abstraction of their heat...
Upon those essentials are all electrical refrigerators built. Some brands exhibited were...