Word: hotchkisses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles to teach "The Art of Acting." Biggest celebrity beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...
President William Otis Hotchkiss of Michigan College of Mining & Technology L.L.D...
Workers told off pickets to guard the plants against sabotage, were fed by wives and Communist committees. This superb idea spread fast. Hotchkiss (automobiles, machine guns), Amiot (airplanes) and Hispano (airplane engines, armaments, munitions) granted the demands. Some munitions manufacturers hurriedly shooed their men out of the plants on forced vacations...
Benet has been Hotchkiss' managing director for years, wears the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, is a Commander of the Crown of Rumania and a Commander of the Military Order of Christ (Portu al). He was the grand old man of the American Colony in Paris and Mrs. Benet's salons were the envy of all aspiring...
...Benet resigned as Hotchkiss managing director before he left, but his permanent successor has not yet been named. The company's most profitable product is its machine gun, invented by Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss about the same time Maxim and Catling were devising their early weapons. The present Hotchkiss is a magnificent piece of engineering capable of 600 shots per minute. Other arms are manufactured and also automobiles, but the machine gun is the product that really enabled Hotchkiss & Cie. to earn as much as 23,500,000 francs in the late 1920's. Last year's report...