Word: frictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William H. Hoover, 82, philanthropist, founder and board chairman, of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners); after a short illness; in Canton, Ohio. His eldest son, Herbert W. (no kin to Herbert Clark Hoover), is president of the concern. Founder Hoover developed the vacuum cleaner from a friction sweeping device invented by a Cleveland janitor who, having asthma, hated dust...
Millman is at work on a thesis concerned with meteors. He attributed the greenish light of the meteor to a large magnesium content which in a vaporized state brought about by the intense heat of friction combines with atoms of the rarified air to form an incandescent gas cap rushing before the meteor...
...retirement, looked for a leader to replace him. Mr. Walker, he thought, possessed prestige as well as brilliance and was a man of broad enough vision to carry on the dreams of the branch banking and in vestment empire which Transamerica rep resented. Soon after Mr. Giannini retired friction became apparent. Friends of Mr. Walker think that when, in the early part of 1930, he became fully familiar with the task ahead of him, he was aghast at the true situation, and has since labored tirelessly to turn Transamerica fiction into the greatest possible amount of auditable fact...
Said Mr. Farrell: "I firmly believe that the time has now arrived for my successor to be appointed in order to establish the management upon a more permanent foundation composed of younger men." This contrasted sharply with his attitude last October. Revived was talk of friction between Mr. Farrell and some other members of the Finance Committee (Myron Charles Taylor, John Pierpont Morgan). In May Mr. Farrell denounced the steel industry for wage cutting, called it "a pretty cheap sort of business," but in October his own company cut wages 10%,. Recently there have been rumors of a further...
...filed suit for divorce in Minden, Nev. Declared Mr. Warren's attorneys: "No scandal is connected with the case." Resigned. James Truslow Adams, U. S. historian, author of The Adams Family, The Epic of America; from the Pulitzer Prize History Committee. Reasons: 1) residence in London (confirmed); 2) friction with the committee (unconfirmed) of which he has been chairman for two years...