Word: charleses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediate reason for the proposed incorporation was that the Oxford Group had been named as such in the will of a female doctor who wished to bequeath it ?500. The matter went into court in London, where Mr. Justice Sir Charles Bennett was informed in an affidavit that the Group...
The Institute of Human Relations is an unorthodox, pioneering institution. First of its kind in the U. S. it was founded ten years ago by two bright Yale deans, Robert Maynard Hutchins of the Law School (now University of Chicago's president) and Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz of the...
One hundred years ago last week a persevering Yankee named Charles Goodyear brewed some crude rubber, sulfur and white lead on his kitchen stove, discovered vulcanization. That invention changed rubber from a scientist's plaything to one of mankind's most useful commodities. Today there are some 35...
Charles Goodyear never visited Akron. His invention arrived there in 1869, eleven years after his death. That year, Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich founded the city's first rubber company, choosing the town because the Ohio & Erie Canal afforded cheap transportation. Goodrich celebrated its 70th birthday last week by announcing...
Thus began the radio log of United Air Lines' Trip 6-Seattle to San Diego, Calif.- on the rainy night of November 28, 1938. Nine hours later Co-Pilot Lloyd E. Jones was dead, drowned in the surf off Point Reyes, near Oakland. So were the stewardess and three...