Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owners of the other half considered the Woods group mere promoters, tried to block all their moves. In 1927 they finally bought the remaining interest for $4,000,000. The business was started in 1896 with a capitalization of $25,000. Typical of its growth is English Addressograph Ltd., sold by the U. S. owners some 20 years ago for $20,000, bought back by the company last year...
Several months ago, Dr. John Kunkel Small of the New York Botanical Garden took a train ride through the Mississippi delta, looked out of the window with his knowing botanical eye at the lush growth of the southern swamps. Suddenly he saw something which made him want to stop the train-a swamp full of giant iris such as a Paul Bunyan might have planted. Soon as possible Dr. Small went back to the spot with two botanical friends. The iris grew seven feet tall, like young trees. They bore immense rainbow colored blossoms. The botanists floundered with difficulty about...
...physical equipment, future payment to be dependent on the successful outcome of the acquired business. As accounts still active are in most cases those of either successful or very rich traders and investors, this way of expanding, if true, is indeed canny. Behind E. A. Pierce & Co.'s growth is Edward A. Pierce, who has been in Wall Street for 30 years. He is a tremendous worker, often sleeps at his office. He is assisted by 27 partners, the largest roster of any New York Stock Exchange member-house. No account of the firm would be complete without mention...
...festering sores, a gross, unlearned practice long abandoned. But maggots are scavengers of the offal they live in. Might it not be that the maggots in his War cases ate up the infected tissue debris, thus preventing blood poisoning? And might they not have secreted something which stimulated the growth of healthy tissue...
...Author. Knut Hamsun, Nobel Prize Winner (Growth of the Soil, 1920), is Norway's No. 1 novelist. By 1918 his books had been translated into 23 languages, bettering Hans Christian Andersen's record by one. Says he, with proud humility: "In 100 years I shall be forgotten." Other books: Hunger...