Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to Burroughs Adding Machine Co., then located in St. Louis, as General Manager. He found that the man whom he succeeded as General Manager had left in a great rage. Soon Mr. Macauley, planning an expansion program, needed to acquire a certain alley. His predecessor had a good deal of political influence and the City Fathers would not give Mr. Macauley his alley. So Mr. Macauley took a train to Detroit, made arrangements for securing all necessary alleys and other real estate. Then back to St. Louis he went...
...fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along with the procession, a policeman forced him to the curb. Ever since 1900 when, as Fierce-Arrow sales-agent he wore out his first Fierce-Arrow demonstrating it, he has been "good copy" in automotive news...
...deposits that at any time run under $500,? do not transmit money or negotiate notes. The $500 minimum deposit regulation (passed in 1914) is supposed to keep widows, orphans and other "small" depositors out of such banking houses. Present-day prosperity permits many to save $500 without having good banking judgment. Because Clarke Bros, conducted a private banking business, they have been erroneously described as a private bank. A private bank is really an entirely different kind of institution. It is fully supervised. It carries on a restricted, specialized business. Example: R. H. Macy's, Manhattan department store...
This business involves facts and figures embracing what the machine does to men. At the end Author Chase balances the machine's effects good, bad and indifferent, and from the whole account concludes: "Engines have been enslaved...
...There is one good thing certainly to be said about the next war. . . . With lungs full of diphenyl chloroarsine (dropped from the invulnerable machines of the air) we shall not need to worry about anything ever again...