Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delighted, delighted . . ." said Mrs. McCormick. ". . . The greatest step forward by women politically. . . . My vote is a particular achievement because this is the first time a woman has been victorious in a statewide vote to fill a national position from an industrial State...
...famed Rogers Hornsby. And when Cohen had brought home the first Giant run of the season, had driven in the tying and winning runs with a two bagger against the left-field fence, had had a bat in every Giant rally, fielded quietly but effectively, and made the greatest debut in the history of baseball, the spectators, chilly no longer, rushed onto the field and carried Cohen off on their shoulders. "He'll draw like Ruth or Gehrig," said Manager John McGraw...
This competition is being fostered by British finance in spite of the fact that the U. S. is now the greatest store and supply house for borax in the world. The American Potash and Chemical Corporation, present producers of borax from brine, are a subsidiary of the New Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa in London; the Pacific Coast Borax Co., present producers of borax from kernite, are a subsidiary of the Borax Consolidated of London...
After J. G. White & Co. sell the securities of the National Toll Bridge Co., the J. G. White Engineering Corp. ("greatest in the world") will superintend the construction of the proposed toll bridges across the Ohio and Missouri rivers. Millions will be spent and huge masses of steel will be flung across wide water, but all the same these jobs are small ones for James Gilbert White. He is a great imperialist of U. S. contracting. Upon five continents his engineers are carrying the dynamic principles of U. S. business into lands where U. S. political influence will perhaps never...
...During the last 18 months more and more (now about 100) A. & P. stores have opened fresh meat departments. They are perhaps Armour & Co.'s greatest customers. On that account when a group of Chicago and Manhattan bankers and brokers a fortnight ago bought 1,000,000 Armour & Co. shares, Wall Street gossip said that A. & P. would get the shares. This was denied...