Word: cooperatives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some wild continent with a romance of gallantry, love. Baboons getting away from a fire, with fast, soft paws and little eyes brightened by fear and a far flame's reflection; bull hippopotamuses lunging down to the water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year and a half and was worth it. Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them a silly but exciting story about an Englishman whose best friends hand him white feathers when they find out he is scared of going...
...Hugh L. Cooper & Co., Manhattan consulting engineers (they built famed Muscle Shoals plants), a 100 million dollar hydro-electric power plant in the Ukraine. When completed, this power plant will be the world's largest...
Completion of the link between the Guatemala and the Salvador railway will bring to a successful conclusion 25 years of effort by Minor Cooper Keith, organizer of potent United Fruit Co. In 1904 (five years after the formation of United Fruit) Mr. Keith acquired from the Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus...
...smalltown wives. In Young Mrs. Greeley he involves two of them in a minor tempest which sends one back to her native village, puts the other also in her place, all because of a cool-eyed modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young Mrs. Greeley's confidante. Deftly Miss Nelson demotes Aurelia's husband...
...There, august in bronze and marble, stand the busts of 49 famed Americans, including Robert Fulton, Horace Mann, Maria Mitchell, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses Simpson Grant, George Washington, Mark Hopkins, Gilbert Charles Stuart. There, too, shall stand John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Joseph Story, Elias Howe, whenever their admirers get around to having busts executed...