Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shining exception to the old rule that inventors never get rich was that most ingenious of all Yankee tinkerers, the late great George Westinghouse. He founded scores of concerns to exploit his contraptions. At one time he was worth at least $50,000,000. Heads of the Westinghouse corporate family have always been Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing, which passed from the founder's control in the panic of 1907, and Westinghouse Air Brake, which was the first but is no longer the foremost. Today Air Brake's assets of $55,000,000 are topped by Electric...
...scrambled so far, so fast and so high that at last his nearest competitor gave up in exhaustion. Di Valero, emulating the "youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista last week, typifies the "will to win" so lacking in pre-Fascist Italians. "The heroism of Di Valero," exulted the official militia organ, "is the supreme gesture of a Black Shirt who, facing the alternative of failing in duty or dying, accepted without...
Once with 1,500 men Morgan attacked a Federal garrison of 2,500, got clean away with 1,800 prisoners, some much-needed socks and boots. For this exploit he was made a brigadier-general. Morgan's first wife, an invalid, died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants...
...protect the Dionne quintuplets from "exploiters from American cities who come to Canada to pull off a racket," the Province of Ontario last week appointed four "big strapping fellows" as guardians. Exclaimed Ontario's Attorney-General Arthur Wentworth Roebuck: ''There is no law which would permit us to deal adequately with the American gentlemen attempting to exploit the children. So we must be satisfied with circumventing their scheme. Promoters may take whatever action they please to enforce their contract to exhibit the children in Chicago. But if they get the children out of the hands of these...
World great is Max Planck because he conceived the quantum theory, an exploit of pure science. Last week he listened with other German scientists in smoky Diisseldorf to Nazi Minister of Science, Art and Education Dr. Bernhard Rust, who felt called upon to deny that Hitlerism is hostile to Science...