Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dusk one evening in 1920 a taxicab rolled up to Jackson Barnett's door. A well-dressed white woman stepped out. She said she was interested in oil and asked him to go for a ride. It was getting dark; he did not want to go. But he was a good-natured Indian who could not say no. He grinned and went. They drove to Okemeh, 18 miles away, and there spent the night. She was not a bad looking white woman...
...tournament in New York by vanquishing Edouard Horemans, of Belgium, the sleek, wavy-haired, temperamental titleholder, 400 to 292. Then he outcued Felix Grange of France, then Eric Hagenlacher of Germany. His chances of winning seemed so good that he calmly announced: "I really believe that I'll go right through the field...
Other men discovered that things were not as they seem. They are made up of particles; particles of molecules; molecules of atoms; atoms of electrical protons and electrons; protons and electrons of world waves which happen to meet, get tangled up, unkink and go undulating on again. Ernest Rutherford (1871-? ) in 1911 proved the electron theory. Arthur Stariley Eddington (1882 -?) is a fine fiddler with the wave theory. Arthur Holly Compton (1892 -? ) is another...
...true that Col. Stewart claimed the support of a majority of Standard Oil of Indiana stockholders. But it is also true that the application of Mr. Hogan's reasoning would cause all U. S. business to totter, to go into a panic. It would mean that, in any corporation, the holder of one share would be as powerful as the holder of 10,000 shares...
...Overland Co., Toledo, Ohio. At Maywood, near Los Angeles, with the help of the Messrs. Morgenthau and Ochs, President Willys dedicated his company's new $1,500,000 assembly plant. On the day before the ceremonies, the plant had turned out 60 small, agile Whippets. It will soon go into Willys-Knight production, plant was designed for quick deliveries west of the Rockies and for the Asiatic trade Said Mr. Willys: "Last year we shipped 40,000 cars out of this country, and this year will send...