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...first went to Western Canada. "I knew nothing about elevators," says Howe, "so there was nothing to hamper me." He worked out new ways of speeding up construction and designed cost-cutting improvements. To replace the slow process of unloading grain with hand shovels, he developed the Howe Car Dumper, a machine which can lift a boxcar full of grain off the railway track, tip it over and empty it in eight minutes. It is still in use at most Canadian terminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: The Indispensable Ally | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Welshmen were full of praise last week for William George, brother of David Lloyd George.* Flaying the British Broadcasting Corp. as a "language dumper, William George hotly declared, Like an eternal distillery it is distilling English, English English all the time. We demand broadcasts in Welsh!" Though fluent in Welsh David Lloyd George sorely vexes his brother William George by broadcasting exclusively in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: George v. Lloyd George | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...revised cast of characters is as follows: Mrs. Castleton Rodgers, owner of "Crestonhurst," Miss Esther Watson Clifton Rodgers, her son, N. R. Sturgis 1G. Jim Forsythe, editor of the "Start," W. A. Searle 1G. Abe Lewis a "dumper", R. D. Whittemore '13 Banks, a negro servant in the Rodgers J. R. K. Taylor uC. America Sparrow, a negro "mammy" in the Floyd home, Miss Louise Burleigh Dixon mason, a young New Yorker, R. C. Benchley '12 Sam Bullen, a Kentucky "Colonel," W. C. Woodward '12 "Mister" Theodore Page, a Kentucky "Private," M. T. Quigg '13 Mary Floyd, his niece, Miss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "NIGHT RIDERS" AT 8.15 | 12/12/1911 | See Source »

...cast of characters for the Dramatic Club's fall production. "The Night Riders," has been selected as follows: Mrs. Castleton Rodgers, owner of "Crestonhurst," Miss Esther Watson Clifton Rodgers, her son, N. R. Sturgis '12 Jim Forsythe, editor of the "Star," W. A. Searle 1G. Abe Lewis, a "dumper," R. D. Whittemore '13 Banks, a negro servant in the Rodgers house, J. R. K. Taylor uC. America Sparrow, a negro "mammy," in the Floyd home, Miss Louise Burleigh Dixon Mason, a young New Yorker, R. C. Benchley '12 Sam Bullen, a Kentucky "Colonel," W. C. Woodward '12 "Mister" Theodore Page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE NIGHT RIDERS" | 11/27/1911 | See Source »

...Castleton Rodgers, owner of "Crestonhurst," Miss Esther Watson Clifton Rodgers, her son, N. R. Sturgis '12 Jim Frosythe, editor of the "Star," W. A. Searle 1G. Abe Lewis, a "dumper," R. D. Whittemore '13 Banks, a negro servant in the Rodgers house, J. R. K. Taylor uC. America Sparrow, a negro "mammy," in the Floyd home, Miss Louise Burleigh Dixon Mason, a young New Yorker, R. C. Benchley '12 Sam Bullen, a Kentucky "Colonel," W. C. Woodward '12 "Mister" Theodore page, a Kentucky "Private," M. T. Quigg '13 Mary Floyd, his neice, Miss Marjorie E. Smith David Bollivar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE NIGHT RIDERS" | 11/25/1911 | See Source »

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