Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beasley, of the Beasley-Eastman Laboratories, Detroit, manufacturers of diathermy apparatus, and president of the Sanitarium Equipment Co., Battle Creek, Mich., the world's largest manufacturers of physical therapy apparatus...
...favorite story of the late Railroader Whitehead was that once on this trip he attempted to ride his bicycle over a trestle, fell off, landed in a creek...
...food concern to Will Keith for almost a quarter of a million dollars, and almost at once founded the Race Betterment Foundation (1906). A more intimate good deed was his legal adoption of 14 orphans and his complete support of some twoscore more. The profits of his profitable Battle Creek Sanitarium go to such works (TIME...
...made himself more famed than his business (the Sanitarium) and his benefactions. Brother Will Keith made his business (Kellogg Co.) more famed than himself. The public knows practically nothing about him. Employes of the Kellogg Company have stern orders against exploiting him. Servants of the Kellogg Inn at Battle Creek, his legal residence, dare not talk. Dr. Carrie S. Staines Kellogg, 63, his second wife, who practices at Battle Creek, minds her own patients, not his business. Nor is there much small talk about him at Pomona, Calif., where he is breeding the largest registered herd of Arabian horses...
...bought a farm on a lake not far from Battle Creek to make a summer home for underprivileged children. For the same sort of children he is helping Battle Creek build a $500,000 Ann J. Kellogg school (Ann Jeanette Kellogg was his mother). Early in October before President Hoover roused the country for unemployment help, he put his Battle Creek factory on a five-day-a-week basis to employ 300 more men. The factory has been running 24 hours a day, in three eight-hour shifts, for 2,500 employes. Last fortnight he altered his factory schedule again...