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Word: goode (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Millionaire Nobody Knows." Living in Canton, Ohio, where his plant is located, he finds recreation in horses, fishing, speed boats, aviation. Indoors, he is serious at bridge. Autocratic in his philosophy of business, he feels one man must be unalterably in control. Yet he believes with Henry Ford that good work can come only from good wages, has never had a strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fast Wheels | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...present locomotive which the Timken Co. has ordered from the American Locomotive Co. and will test on roads throughout the country has roller bearings on the driving and tender wheels and on the connection between the main and side rod. If successful it would make good the boast: "Throughout industry the 'impossible' has yielded to Timken design, construction and resources." To the railroads it would bring lower operating costs and the riding comfort that the public, accustomed to buying every luxury desired, is starting to demand from railroads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fast Wheels | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...architect, John L. Kingston of Warren & Whetmore, started with the idea of a good sized building constructed, theoretically, high up in the air. Then he planned downward to the street level, spreading lower stories to get the "setback" effect which gives tall buildings the maximum of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscraper Economics | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...worth last week $295,892,503, that these greatly increasing profits are due largely to the company's electrical subsidiaries and their prospects. Friends of Mr. Porter know that he was born in the largest house in Washington Square, Manhattan, that his golf is poor, his marksmanship good, that he likes to fish, loves to travel. Members of the Engineering Foundation know that he was elected to its chairmanship not because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iron Alloys | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan chuckled at the thought that perhaps Town Crier Alexander (''The Great") Woollcott deserved to have his pudgy body tied to the end of some modern ducking stool and to be plunged screaming into some terrifying bath. For either Crier Woollcott had broken all rules of good town-crying and good reporting, or John Joseph Pershing had worse than weaseled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pure Fiction | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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