Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Revolution; as a student at Phillips Exeter, the Walter Hines Page, Merrill and Teschemacher prizes (all in one year) and a four-year scholarship at Harvard; as a junior at Harvard the New York Times's intercollegiate current events contest ($750). He was serving the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins when Miss Perkins asked Professor Frankfurter to suggest a solicitor for her. Wyzanski was the answer...
...until after the close of this war did the real genius of the living Eugene Schneider begin to manifest itself. Russia needed rearming. The Krupps rushed in. The English firm of vickers rushed in. Eugene Schneider rushed in. There ensued a brief jockeying for position among the three firms--and it was Schneider, perhaps, who captured the best. "Buy from us," he whispered gently into the proper ears, "and pay with FRENCH money." It was not hard to arrange. The French Ambassador to Imperial Russia was then Maurico Paleologue, who was likewise a director in the Schneider Banque...
...independent armament firm is the Ancients Establishments Hotchkiss et Cie, founded by Banjamin Berkelyey Hotchkiss, American engineer and inventor of the Hotchkiss Machine Gun, born in Watertown, Connecticut, in 1826. British, French, and American capital are intermingled in the company now, but the managing director is a self-expatriated ex-ensign of the U. S. Navy. Lawrence Vincent Benet, uncle of Stephen Vincent Benet, the poet. His American citizenship did not stop him from selling tons of guns and other war materials to Japan at the same time that Secretary of Siate Stimson was vainly trying to keep the Japanese...
...will gather that England, peace-loving England, has been quite some time at the task of building up this organization She has. The firm began in 1829. Slowly, throughout the nineteenth century, the firm grew, changed it name, cast its outworn skins, grew fat, prosperous, and highly multicellular through the acquisition of this forpedo works, of that heavy ordnance factory. And then there came along Mr.Basilelos Zachavias...
...best killing machine Zaharoff had ever seen. Zaharoff took Maxim to his bosom, with reservations. First he used his wily, polyglot salesmanship to block the gun's sale in Austria as an impractical toy; them, when he had offered Maxim a partnership and get the sale of the gun firmly in his own hands he swept over Europe and Asia selling such quantities that soon the new firm of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt Guns & Ammunition Co. was purchased for some $6,000,000 (the year was 1897) by Vickers interests and became Vickers Sons & Maxim. Sir Basil was established...