Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garfunkel, founder of the Busy Bee Restaurants in Manhattan, is through (i.e., he is going to give his restaurants to his three children and set out for playgrounds with his wife). Said he: "For 40 years I've worked from 5 o'clock in the morning until 8 o'clock at night. I've never had a real vacation. Now I'm going to play. I want to go to Palm Beach, to Europe, to Carlsbad, Vienna, Paris and Switzerland. I am going to retire, quit. I am tired. Money is not everything. . . . Frankfurters, coffee...
...excited against them by the neighborhood store keepers. Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising the service of the chains and attempting to "humanize" them. Penney's, especially, is utilizing the personality of James Cash Penney, its founder. Other chains, on the other hand, keep up the policy of vending food impersonally...
Merge not only productions units. Merge also raw material units, selling units, consumers' units. Merge them sidewise-like with like-horseshoe maker with horseshoe maker. Merge them up and down-coal miner, iron miner, pig iron founder, horseshoe forger, blacksmith, teamster. Merge them round and round-blacksmith, nail maker, harness maker, feedman, stableman, veterinarian, buggy maker, cabby...
Died. Belle Skinner, 47, president of the American Committee of Villages Liberes, daughter of the late William Skinner, founder of the Skinner Silk Co.; in Paris. In 1919, she adopted the entire French village of Hattonchatel, spent $1,000,000 restoring it, and was three times decorated by the French Government...
Miss Pao Tselg, a descendant of famed Philosopher Tsing and the founder of a school for well-bred Chinese girls, observed that Confucius in all his teachings mentioned women only twice. She quoted his maxim: "It is very difficult to keep company with women or with small-minded men." And she recalled his reply to King Wu, when this worthy had mentioned the aid, which he received in ruling, from a council of 10 persons: ". . . There are only 9, for 1 is a woman...