Word: industrialistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lammot du Pont, Delaware Republican, Wet industrialist. Reason: Prosperity...
Good President Hainisch, snowy of beard, kindly of eye, fancier of prize cows (TIME, April 2) has little to do except sign bills and graciously conduct state functions. In bygone years Frau und Mutter Hainisch, spouse of a potent industrialist, vigorously directed her son's education at Leipzig and his subsequent career in the courtly civil service of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, Hungarian King. But, in order that her son might have two strings to his bow, wise Mutter Hainisch encouraged her Michael to become the erudite and scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology...
William Hartman Woodin, Manhattan Republican, industrialist (American Car &. Foundry Co., American Locomotive Co., General Motors Corp.). Reason: personal friendship, admiration...
...Against the Prohibition Amendment, of which the President is Major Henry Hastings Curran of Manhattan; of which Charles H. Sabin of Manhattan, board chairman of the Guaranty Trust Co., last week, became treasurer. The A.A. P. A. acquired six new directors last week: Financier Henry Morrell Atkinson of Atlanta, Industrialist Lammot du Pont of Wilmington, Clarence H. Geist of Philadelphia (public utilities), Banker David M. Goodrich of Manhattan, Lawyer Gerald Hughes of Denver, Financier Samuel Mather of Cleveland...
With gleaming tusks, spotted skins, Africa lures the hunter. With savage tribes, brilliant plumage, exotic flowers, Africa calls to the explorer and the naturalist. But to the 20th century industrialist, eagerly scanning the world's wealth, the world's markets, Africa means first RAW MATERIALS, then CHEAP LABOR. Palm oil, extracted from the fruit of the African oil palm, the basis of many a soap, drew William Hesketh Lever to Africa in 1911 (see p. 17). More and more oil was needed for Lever Brothers' gigantic plant at Port Sunlight, England. The Congo held a vast, almost...