Word: forte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work to reconcile religion and business. Some organize their vestry into a board of directors, incorporate their church properties, advertise sermons in penny slogans on glass billboards. Others denounce Mammon, at the same time reminding their parishioners that it is more blessed to give than to receive. In Fort Worth the Rev. H. L. Wilkinson, pastor of the Cranberry Avenue Baptist Church, found still another way. He opened a grocery store. To meet the debt incurred by building a new church he turns his salary back into the church treasury, and lives on the profits of his store. A kindly...
...state taxes. Last week he stated dour facts. In Ohio, Carnegie Steel Co. (subsidiary of U. S. Steel) paid 24 different taxes last year. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. spent more on taxes than on dividends. International Harvester Co., needing a new plant site, studied Ohio taxes, and picked Fort Wayne, Ind., just over the border. U. S. Steel Corp. last year spent $25,000,000 in Pennsylvania, $20,000,000 in the Indiana-Illinois district; and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. built in Michigan; American Rolling Mill Co., in Kentucky. "There has not been a single new basic industry...
...sanitation crude. That explains why so many Navahos have contracted trachoma, highly contagious eye disease. The eyelids become granulated and sticky. The victim squints, often becomes blind. Already one out of every four or five Indians has trachoma. Every third child has it, and at the reservation school at Fort Defiance, Ariz., every other pupil suffers. Aroused, Commissioner Charles H. Burke of the Indian Bureau, Department of the Interior, last week ordered the Fort Defiance school quarantined as an institution to which, after Jan. 1, only diseased children might be sent...
...round-topped whale-backs for the most part and peculiar to the Great Lakes, carry coal from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky to ports of Lake Superior, the largest body of fresh water in the world. On the down voyage they haul wheat from Canada (Port Arthur and Fort William) and from the U. S. (Duluth), and iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores. This commerce is immensely valuable and ship owners push their vessels to beyond the limits of the navigation season, which ends the first week in December and begins the middle of April...
...Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy: "I gasped not with horror when 'Sergeant Major Jiggs,' famed bulldog mascot of the Marines, was dropped from an airplane in a parachute and drifted crazily down to the crowd of spectators at the football game between the Quantico Marines and the Fort Benning (Ga.) Infantry, fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 29). Ladies near me shuddered, hid their faces lest the intrepid bulldog should meet his doom; some said, 'How cruel!' Bulldog Jiggs landed safely. . . . Then last week I received letters from the Anti-Vivisection Society and from the Society...