Word: ely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Eli Watson, oratorical, jowl-shaking Republican Senator for 17 years before 1933, was back home in Indiana for his 80th birthday, greeted the press with: "Sit down and I'll tell you 100 lies in 50 minutes." He is positively "not a candidate for office . . . just an old, broken-down number out on the scrap heap with no ambition except to help my party...
...Eli Whitney should be famed in the U.S. less for his cotton gin, on which he never made a dime (his landlady blabbed about it and it was copiously copied before he could make his patents stick), than for producing the world's first manufactured goods with interchangeable parts. When he assembled the scrambled parts of ten muskets before U.S. War Department brass hats, they were as startled as if a magician had conjured them up. Besides contributing to mass production, Whitney's revolutionary discovery also helped the U.S. kill the beginnings of the slavish apprentice system...
...Eli Terry, Connecticut clockmaker, revolutionized production and sales methods by making his clocks before he had any orders for them. He also originated installment selling: when he encountered sales resistance to his cheap "wag on the wall," he left it for a trial period, collected for it gradually during periodic selling trips...
...Carroll Faust took over Tulane's Tropical Medicine Department in 1938, it consisted of himself and two assistants. In 1941 the Rockefeller Foundation, mindful of the epidemic threats of global war, gave it $200,000. With this money and contributions from the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine, Inc., Eli Lilly Co. et al., a full-size school is now in the making...
Five changes and promotions on the Staff of NTS (Communications) have been announced by Lieut. Commander M. Eli Paradise, USNR, Officer-in-Charge...