Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Mill of England patented a typewriter in 1714. The firm of Sholes, Glidden & Soulé developed a practical machine in the U. S. in 1867, and typewriters began to be marketed by Remington in 1874. First U. S. patent on a writing-machine, however, was issued in 1829 to a remarkable man named William Austin Burt. On this device, in March 1830, Inventor Burt whacked out the first letter typewritten in the U.S. Last week the Smithsonian Institution proudly announced that it had acquired and would shortly display this message...
Bitterly resenting the fact that the defense was not given a hearing before the charges were broadcast to the Press, James M. Hutton Sr., head of the 50-year-old Cincinnati firm, cracked back in a flat denial: "It [the stock] went up purely because of the ancient law of supply and demand that has been in effect much longer than the law under which the Securities Commission operates...
Founded in 1889 by Maine's General Thomas Worcester Hyde, Bath Iron Works has had an erratic record. It nearly went under in 1895 when an experimental armored ram built for the Navy failed to develop the speed required. The firm was saved by a special Act of Congress which authorized the craft's acceptance on the ground that the builders were not responsible for its deficiencies. A few years later Bath Iron Works was sold to Charles Michael Schwab's U. S. Shipbuilding Co., which sold it back to General Hyde...
Sailing from Manhattan last week for a vacation in Ireland, James Aloysius Farley risked his shining reputation as a prophet with a new prediction. The man who was right about Election solemnly declared: "It is my firm belief that the country will soon have the most prosperous time in all its history. . . . This Christmas will be the best and most prosperous in the history of the nation. I am sure that we will see people spending more money than in any previous Administration...
...daughter of an English merchant. Enraged at being cuckolded by an English officer, the Spaniard allows his wife to die in childbirth, and he deposits the child in a convent. Unknowingly apprenticed to his own grandfather, the child grows up to become the heir and hope of the family firm, the Casa da Bonnyfeather...