Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About four years ago, the late William H. Vaughan, a well known architect of Saratoga Springs, showed me the original plans of the United States Hotel. These were drawn by the firm of Vaughan & Stevens, the Vaughan of Vaughan & Stevens being William H. Vaughan's grandfather...
...responsible for developing the new tube is keen, soft-spoken Raymond R. Machlett, Cornell-trained president of Machlett Laboratories of Springdale, Conn., largest manufacturers of X-ray tubes in the U.S. The firm was founded by Raymond's father, Robert, in 1897, just two years after the discovery of X-rays. Robert Machlett died in 1926 of prolonged and repeated X-ray burns, acquired in the pioneering period...
...Most of all," says daughter Katrin, "I remember Mama," Mama is kind, firm, and resourceful, and has four children to look after. There are Katrin, the oldest, who wants to be a writer; Christine, blonde, the prettiest member of the clan; Nels, the young man of the house; and Dagmar, the precocious, animal-loving seven-year-old girl. Naturally, Mama doesn't want her children to fear poverty, so she invents a neat little myth about a bank account. But of course, no one ever "goes to the bank" because Mama always figures a way out of every emergency...
...weekend he had the kind of date we all dream about and seldom realize. Her name is Jane Peterson and she's from Cleveland. Ernie would have been completely lost to us had it not been that he had put the ring on deposit at a local small finance firm for obvious reasons...
...father. At the University of Nebraska he was a star student, once passed a course on Poet John Milton with a grade of 95 after only a week's study. He got his law degree at the University of Michigan, gave up work in a Manhattan law firm as too dull, and went to the antitrust division in 1930. When Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold was promoted to the bench last year, the antitrust division seemed to quiet down. But not really: indictments came out as fast as ever and, under Wendell Berge, increased their global scope...