Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Franklin Kettering, $500,000, John Wells, Inc., Defoe works at Bay City, Mich...
...three members of the Senior Dormitory Committee were announced yesterday by G. L. Lewis Jr. '30, chairman of the Committee, as follows: Robert Franklin Walker Smith '30 of Evanston, Illinois; Howard Theodore Wenner '30 of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania; Lewis Lumber Wadsworth Jr. '30 of Winchester...
...speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...
This was not the first time that Mr. Dreiser had been accused of plagiarism. George Ade shamed him in 1926; Columnist Franklin P. Adams of the New York World found remarkably similar passages in Mr. Dreiser's works and in Sherwood Anderson's earlier Winesburg, Ohio...
...Harden Franklin Taylor, 38, went from Government work (Bureau of Fisheries) to aid a sick industry (fisheries). Fish, even packed in ice, lost flavor, spoiled quickly, could be sold only near the coasts. The trouble was, he discovered, that the fish were frozen too slowly. So he invented a refrigerator for quick freezing. Now frozen fish are shipped throughout the country, housewives can vary their menus, and the Atlantic Coast Fisheries who supported the research makes money...