Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reference to the letter on Antarctic Coal in TIME, Aug. 14 by Frederick W. Foote and your editorial comment, may I clarify the matter...
...Geneticist Frederick Adams Woods, who lives in Rome and loves to count, tabulated the fecundity of Englishmen listed in Who's Who. Issued last week were his findings: businessmen have three times as many children as artists and authors. Fecundity, reasons Geneticist Woods, depends upon an inheritable desire to leave descendants. The family-minded are usually practical, go into business...
...Married. Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, and Teresa Larkin, 25; in River Forest, Ill. While touring China in 1936 Fred Snite was seized by poliomyelitis. His diaphragm muscles paralyzed, he would have suffocated had he not been near Peiping Union Medical College Hospital, which owned an iron lung. A year later, when his wealthy father (in the small loan, furniture and real-estate business in Chicago) decided to bring Fred home, it was necessary to transfer him from one iron lung to another. The transfer took three precarious minutes, left Fred gasping and half-strangled...
...remembers the Chicago World's Fair-the Fair before the last-in 1893, has forgotten Frederick William MacMonnies' Columbian Fountain. It was the largest fountain in the world. Its plaster excrescences shone in the palace-girt Court of Honor. All Victorian eyes viewed it with admiration no less for its artistic beauties than because it showed: "Columbia sitting aloft on a Barge of State, heralded by Fame at the prow, oared by the Arts and Industries, guided by Time at the helm, and drawn by seahorses of Commerce. . . . Horns of Plenty pour their abundance over the gunwales...
...Couzens was mayor of Detroit in 1922 when the city bought Detroit United Railway (for $19,850,000). He was in the Senate, and Detroit Street Railways was running in the black when a husky onetime track material checker named Frederick Albert Nolan became its operating boss...