Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan-born in 1791 of English stock, shrewd, self-made Peter Cooper pioneered in iron manufacturing, built the first U. S. steam locomotive ("Tom Thumb"), promoted the first transatlantic cables, built one of the first big U. S. fortunes. An industrialist and inventor of genius, he won his most lasting fame by founding Manhattan's great free educational centre, Cooper Union. His creed...
...always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." A college friendship cemented by twelve hours in an open boat after a ship wreck made lifelong partners of Peter Cooper's son Edward and Abram Stevens Hewitt. Together they took over the Cooper iron works at Trenton, N. J. and Partner Hewitt married Peter Cooper's only daughter, Sarah Amelia. Vastly successful in business, Abram Hewitt built the first U. S. open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first...
Abram Hewitt's son, Peter Cooper Hewitt, inherited and brought to full fruition the inventive genius of his Grandfather Cooper. The late, great Michael Pupin marveled not only at the imaginative brilliance of his mind but also at his extraordinary physical grace, especially marked in the deftness of his hands. Rich and unorthodox in his methods, he invented the widely-used mercury vapor lamp, discovered the basic principle of the vacuum-tube amplifier, made many an other prime contribution to electricity and radio. He also pioneered in the development of hydro-airplanes, speedboats, aerial torpedoes, heliocopters. He died...
...spent large sums to establish Ann's legitimacy in court when Father Hewitt's brothers and sisters contested his will? Furthermore, her daughter's chief charge was absurd since neither of them could ever touch the trust fund principal, which was reserved eventually for Cooper Union...
...lives of even Bengal Lancers are soon to reek of gasoline & grease, handsome young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had nevertheless done the best he could for his cavalry friends. He might have enlarged His Majesty's existing Tank Corps and other highly developed mechanized units gradually, while disbanding little by little the men on horseback. Instead, the horse cavalry are to dismount and step aboard machines, keeping their jobs and becoming mechanized cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy...