Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After graduating from U. S. Naval Academy and serving briefly in the Navy, Engineer Sprague spent a year with Thomas Edison, then formed his own company, got a contract in 1887 to install an electric railway in Richmond, Va. Said he later: "I believed in myself and staked a fortune. All hands worked with a vengeance. . . . The morning we tried the first trolley up the steepest grade, it crept up the 10% slope slowly, steadily, wobbling here & there. After an eternity it reached the crest and the men cheered. Our company went into a receivership in the end but. . . contracts...
...located. He used to boast to competitors, "The reason why you do not get ahead and I do is because you travel in wheelbarrows, while I travel in air planes." During most of the night before his death, Salesman Bat'a worked over the terms of a shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. Rising at 5 a. m. he fumed at the fog & mist which made a take-off risky. Twice the pilot refused his mas ter's order to start. Finally at 6:30 a. m. Bat'a said, "We must start...
...more persons are exposed to infantile paralysis than ever contract the disease. The germ is present in the noses and throats of many healthy individuals. During epidemics most adults and children in the stricken areas pick up germs, acquire immunity without developing symptoms of the disease. This immunity lasts a lifetime. Each epidemic immunizes thousands of children. Not until these thousands are grown and other thousands have taken their places is another epidemic likely to occur. New York City had a local epidemic in 1907 (2,000 cases). Its epidemic of 1916 (9,000 cases) spread to the Mississippi. Last...
...Philip Hal Sims, Howard Schenken, Willard S. Kara & David Burnstine, famed "Four Horsemen" of the Deal (N. J.) Bridge Club: the team-of-four contract championship at the American Whist League Congress in Cleveland; with 18½ matches out of a possible...
...still a lot of pay dirt left in me," declared Mr. Stewart. "I've a number of matters up my sleeve and I'm a long way from being through. I have a contract with the Government and it has been broken. Retired? Don't put it that way. I've had a tin can tied to the end of my coat tail...