Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbus the Nominee attended an Ohio State-Pitt football game, munched popcorn, hot dogs and pumpkin pie, was quoted as remarking: "There is nothing I enjoy more in football than light, fast backs...
...impossible, except on speedways. In Europe, where automobiles are still a luxury, auto racing thrives because bored patricians find it amusingly dangerous. The drivers in last week's race were divided into two groups. In one group were grease-stained, speedway-trained U. S. professionals whose big, fast cars lacked the transmissions and brakes needed for road racing. In the other group were seasoned road racers like Italy's Count Antonio Brivio and Tazio Nuvolari, England's Hon. Brian Lewis and Lord Howe. For their cars, designed for up-&-downhill, cross-country racing, level curves were...
...banker and what he has in Englewood is not a bank. It is a cash register." Whatever John Milton Nichols may be, he has set something of a record for financial exhibitionism in the past three years. He got his headline tag of "100%" by liquidating loans as fast as he could early in Depression, having more than enough cash and Government bonds to cover all his deposits when the banking storm hit. Later the Nichols index of liquidity climbed to 102% which also got his name in the papers. But Banker Nichols did not really begin to show...
...control of the institution 33 years ago. At the bank, "100%" Nichols has a private office but spends most of his time at a desk in the lobby where he can watch people come and go. He travels to work in a Duesenberg, which he likes to drive fast, piling up in a ditch not long ago. Now 45, short, black-haired, profane, he talks out of the side of his mouth, looks not unlike the late Huey Pierce Long...
...reason his fellow lumbermen-capitalists picked Ben Alexander to run Masonite was that he could make it a full-time job. Another was that in a young company they wanted a young man. Measured in plant capacity. Masonite has grown fast. It is now able to turn out more than 23,000,000 ft. of board per month as against about 2,000,000 in 1927. Measured in profits, Masonite has grown even faster. After a small loss the first year its earnings mounted to $411,000 by 1929, dropped into the red in only two Depression years, jumped...