Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fritz Badley Talbot '00, Chemical Professor of Pediatrics. He has been a member of the University faculty since...
...thousand excited Germans sat beside Berlin's famed Avis Speedway one day last week, and listened to a lecture on rockets. The lecturer was Fritz von Opel, motor magnate. Beside him stood a little racing car with two unusual accessories. In its rear it had something that looked like an exaggerated exhaust pipe. This, explained Herr von Opel, was a chamber for the explosion of rockets, the car's only means of locomotion. The other feature was a pair of little wings like an airplane's, except that their pitch was inverted. These, said Herr von Opel...
Birch into Mahogany. Many American hardwood trees have no particular commercial value. Herr Fritz von Behr, pioneer tree surgeon of Germany, is working with dye pot and surgical instruments on beeches, birches, maples in Maine to make them eligible for future furniture. He selects sound young trees, makes a pattern of holes in the trunks and roots, injects 75 to 100 gallons of a secret soluble aniline dye. For four days the tree sucks up the dye. On the third day afterward the leaves begin to turn pink, violet, blue, red; the wood becomes tinted. After two weeks the leaves...
...century, a tall, well-set-up young executive given to cheerful pugnacity and serious business. The late Henry H. Rogers, Standard Oil partner, recognized the qualities, and persuaded John D. Ryan to manage the properties of the Amalgamated Copper Co. in Montana and to fight the late Fritz Augustus Heinze for control of the Montana copper-industry. Manager Ryan won his fight. When Henry Rogers died, in 1909, Ryan became president of the Amalgamated. Next year he dealt with Montana copper-companies in such a way that Anaconda Copper Mining Co. bought the subsidiaries of the Amalgamated, and after...
Leopold Auer Fritz Kreisler...