Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel particularly sensitive about your casting such aspersions against Boston, as that was the only town in America where a speech of mine was quoted correctly. I had no idea, when I consented to give an interview in Walt Whitman's house in Camden (to help raise funds to make it fireproof) that I would be letting myself in for so much unfortunate publicity. No sooner did I reach New York than someone showed me a clipping from the New York World saying that I "mourned for America" (which is just the opposite of my true feelings-I have...
...single, short trip, his insurance company charged a premium of $1,000. Another company might have charged more, another less. No one knows what is a fair rate for aviation insurance risks. Whatever standards exist are constantly fluctuating and depend on a multitude of conditions and contingencies. To help the insurance companies fix standards the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics last week instituted a thoroughgoing survey of aviation mortality...
...darkness the audience grew impatient. Children squirmed and complained. Suddenly the building emitted jets and twists of flame, illumined the landscape. The effect was uncannily real. The crowd cheered and applauded. In an upper window the mock bride and groom looked funny as they gesticulated for help. The crowd roared heartily. Amid soaring flames, the clownish occupants of the building cut excited, silly capers. When the searchlight operator turned his beam on the blazing roof, he revealed what looked like a charred corpse. Nervous, delighted, the crowd's amusement increased...
Willys-Overland Co. represented a 1908 reorganization of the old Overland Co., a panic-victim of 1907. Mr. Willys, who was then Overland's sales-agent in Elmira, snatched the company out of a receivership, putting up $350 to help meet a payroll. He reorganized the company with himself as president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, purchasing agent. Like Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Mr. Willys was once a cycle-maker. His bicycle plant was at Canandaigua, N. Y., not far from Hammondsport, N. Y., the birthplace of Mr. Curtiss who later built up JOHN NORTH WILLYS Chicago bought him out. Curtiss...
...Utah's late rugged Bishop Frank Spaulding spoke one day to students at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. The Bishop spoke of Episcopal difficulties in Utah, of the Mormon University at Logan, of Mormon proselytizing. The Bishop was asking for help. "Whom shall we send and who will go?" Student Paul Jones echoed Isaiah: "Here I am, send...