Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer, who is opening great rubber plantations in Liberia, told the investigators of the House of Representatives that, while the Philippines possess all the qualifications for producing rubber, no attempt to invest capital in rubber plantations can be made there until the land laws are revised and the political situation stabilized...
...Harvey Firestone ought to send some complimentary balloon tires to the British colonial office instead of firing a couple of congressional popguns...
...both alert, energetic, farseeing, both good publicists. One, John Harvey?Dr. John Harvey? had recently invented his famed ready-cooked flaked cereals as a new form of food. Both knew the huge money possibilities of the new idea. But they differed inalterably on the disposition of earnings. John Harvey, a young doctor full of altruistic educational plans, considered the private accumulation of such gains unethical. Not so, Brother W. K. This one foresaw for himself independent wealth, private estates, gentlemanly diversions. They went to court. For almost a quarter-million dollars Brother W. K. bought from Brother Dr. John Harvey...
Such private activities Brother Dr. John Harvey Kellogg glances at in his quick, comprehending fashion, then looks aside to his medical, surgical, educational, inventive, publishing and research organizations, of which he is the driving force...
This ideal of education and welldoing, as all the world knows, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has followed with rare assiduity, with an amazing versatility of means. The retelling of these sounds like the staccato popping of a high speed motor...