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Biting Comment. In Indianapolis, Ho tel Clerk Dewey F. Campbell filed a suit for $50,000 against Roger Ferguson and the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., charged that Ferguson, an agent of the oil com pany, on being informed that there were no rooms available, had bitten the end of Dewey Campbell's nose...
...example, practical Marconi had to get the idea that a wireless message might be sent before he could figure how to do it. He got the idea from Hertz's demonstration of the existence of electromagnetic waves. And Hertz got the idea of looking for such waves from Clerk Maxwell, who got his idea from working with the calculus. And the calculus was invented long before by Newton, who was an abstract, not a practical thinker...
...best jobs done during the war." He proceeded to prove it by not droning statistics, or by making belligerent assertions, but with a series of 106 big (2 by 3 ft.), easy-to-read charts, mounted on a 7-ft. easel and shifted by a clerk as Chester Bowles made the accompanying narration. Main theme: thanks to OPA, the U.S. has come off quite well in World War II as compared with World War I. Example: after 53 months of War I, the cost of living had risen 65%; after 53 months of War II it had risen only...
...language Buenos Aires Herald, picked up a bit of gossip. She was off like a hound for the pleasant suburb of Villa Urquiza. There the trail got hot. Tradesmen had played with the rumored quints, delivered eight bottles of milk a day to their parents' home. A drug-clerk had seen them brought in batches to be weighed on the scales of the Farmacia San Patricio. Neighbors had seen them being aired in sets...
...Evans graduated from Yale into the depression in 1931. He was glad to get a lowly clerk's job with the Mellon-controlled Gulf Oil Corp. But that was as far as the Mellon help went. With only some fatherly advice from Gulf's Board Chairman, W. L. Mellon, Tom Evans made his way alone. For six years he saved money, like an Alger hero; and played the stockmarket, unlike an Alger hero. Thus he collected $10,000. He wanted to find and buy a family-owned business that had gone to pot. In the down...