Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years of this, he proceeded to buy out the manufacturing end of the business, and acquired five men to help him run it. During the dark days of 1920, these five stuck to Wardell and his vacuum cleaners. Today, the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., Detroit, is the largest manufacturing concern of its type in the world, with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding and no bonds or preferred ahead of it. The whole business has been built out of its extraordinary earnings. Five years ago, Wardell's five henchmen invested among them a meagre sum in the business...
...Stanton Manuscripts which contain new information as to the contest with President Johnson and also the Johnson Manuscripts themselves will be photographed. Almost every month new material is coming in to the Manuscript Division of Widener and the handling of this mass of manuscripts is Professor Channing's present concern...
...departure of Professor Baker from Cambridge to New Haven there was much which seemed unbecoming. To many of us it appeared a shrewd Yankee trick, similar to those business coups whereby one company lures away the consulting engineer or sales manager who have been the mainstay of a rival concern. Yale was not so poor in dramatic talent as to need such a quick turnover in her dramatic teaching. The result was that many who do not know Woolley or knowing him, have no great liking for him personally, used his resignation as their excuse to protest against the tendency...
...their work is not appreciated or recognized. It will require an unprecedented loosening of the bustle to proceed with the necessary changes. The lady must cease her Machiavellian policies and take more of her handmaids into her confidence. She must not hide her plans from those whom they most concern...
...doctrine of health can be sold effectively only by constantly advertising the idea to the public. However much physicians may deplore the necessity of thrusting themselves into the lime-light, they cannot rely on common sympathy to champion a business which does not really concern them...