Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Krupp works, had been given power-of-attorney to reform the Federation, bring it into line with the Government and cut out wasteful competition among its members. By his shrewdness in backing Handsome Adolf against the field several years ago Krupp von Bohlen last week restored his firm to the dominant political position in German industry that it occupied under the Empire with his wife, the great Bertha. The banks were next. Dr. Georg Solmssen last week resigned as president of the Central Association of German Banks and Bankers; Dr. Otto Christian Fischer succeeded him. Werner Dietz was appointed...
Since he assumed the presidency of the University on October 5, 1909, President Lowell has instituted six major innovations in American educational policy. Starting from the firm foundation that was built during the preceding administration, he has fulfilled the plans he set forth in his inaugural address...
...lecture hall, even though her arm is broken when an enemy aviator topples a piece of the Empire State Building on her. She is heckled and hooted, her house ransacked. Her son, her disciple, finally swells out his chest, lumps his throat a bit, hides it with a firm chin, and goes off to war in an aeroplane...
...Toronto 'salesman who distributed Eno's Fruit Salt, Glover's Mange Medicine, Rubberset Brushes, Tanglefoot Fly Paper. Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy, Scott's Emulsion, Pompeian Cream all over the world (TIME, March 6), was elected president of her late husband's distributing firm, Harold F. Ritchie...
...could U. S. scissor-makers afford to adopt some such plan for increasing profits. Biggest U. S. makers include J. Wiss & Sons and W. H. Compton, of Newark; H. Boker & Co. (established in 1837, now run by the founder's grandchildren), J. A. Henckels (branch of the German firm of the same name) and Griffon Cutlery Works, in Manhattan. Several other companies make scissors as side lines, including United Shoe Machinery Corp. of Boston, Landers, Frary & Clark of Xew Britain, Conn., Remington Arms and Winchester Repeating Arms Co. of New Haven...