Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heating and Ventilating Engineers convened. Their president, Engineer S. E. Dibble, touched upon the heat of the future in a manner coolly prophetic: "It is no more improbable to broadcast heat waves than it was to broadcast sound waves. . . . The day is not far off when we shall see huge centralized heating plants broadcasting heat to be utilized at far distant points in homes, plants and office buildings...
With the building of huge football stadia and the higher organization of all college athletics, football and basketball may well have superseded baseball in popular favor purely through being more spectacular. The movement to engage all schoolboys and college men in some form of athletics, the wide publicity given to the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924 (after the hiatus 1912-1920) and to Paavo ("Flying Finn") Nurmi when he visited the U. S. after those Games, may well have been factors making track and field sports momentarily more popular than baseball. The crowded condition of many city playgrounds...
...score or so years ago. They were quite alike, these two Kellogg boys, of Battle Creek, Mich.?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...
Last week the press brought news of Brother W. K. Kellogg out of the quietude of his life. He is Chairman of the Board of the Kellogg Co., huge foodmakers with a working capital in 1925 of $2,384,527; successor of the old Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Co.; owner of the Battle Creek Toasted Flake Co. of London, Ont.; builder in 1924 of a $400,000 plant in Battle Creek; owner of plants in London, Ont., and Sydney, Australia; recent buyer of a plant of the Quaker Oats Co. and another of the Purity Oats Co.; owner of interests...
Further he imputed sinister connections between the Van Sweringens and their bankers, J. P. Morgan & Co., the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland, and the First National Bank in Manhattan; estimated huge personal profits for the brothers...