Word: canse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than a rack of test-tubes ? a retort! Seething humanity smothered the Derby. Confetti and torn telephone books snowed. A placard and its prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would...
Died. Frank McDowell Leavitt, 72, inventor, 25 years ago, of the machine that makes tin cans, inventor of the Bliss-Leavitt torpedo used by the U. S. Navy since 1918; of heart disease; at Scarsdale, N. Y.
(See front cover} As intrinsic to the Fourth of July as the red crackers sputtering under tin cans in millions of back yards or the blazing sun which, always a little sultry as if stained with gunpowder, wheels over the continent, is the tradition which dictates that the baseball...
Both men, before they became great in the world's oil industry, kept business accounts. Meyer at 22 (in 1886) found work as bookkeeper in the old Standard Oil's Boston office. Soon he became statistician. Deterding at 22 quit work as Chief Clerk in an Amsterdam bank...
Continental Can Co. (Second only to American Can Go. in manufacture of cans for foods, paints, talcum powders, etc.)- $4,438,646. Previous year: $3,784,184.