Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michael Owens, backed by Edward Libbey, invented the automatic bottle-making machine, formed Owens Bottle Machine Co., now Owens-Illinois. Another inventor, one Irving Colburn, hadi invented an improved method of making glass sheets. Messrs. Libbey and Owens bought the Colburn patents, improved the process, went into the flat glass business. But they kept bottles & windows in two separate corporate packages and the only connection today between Libbey-Owens-Ford and Owens-Illinois is the name of the late, great Mike Owens...
...single taxer and developed the idea years ago under names like Business and The Landlord's Game. Monopoly in its present form was patented by an unemployed Philadelphian named Charles B. Darrow, whose last job (1930) was with a coal company lecturing dealers on new anthracite uses. Inventor Darrow built the first set in 1931, sold a few to friends, finally got it into Wanamaker's in Philadelphia. Parker Brothers of Salem, Mass., No. 1 U. S. game makers, turned Monopoly down at first because it required too many gadgets, took too long to play (two hours...
...Manhattan, the President stopped at Newark to sit in a meeting of New Jersey's National Emergency Council presided over by Charles Edison, son of the late great inventor. Said the President in an informal speech: "I want to say just one word about the usefulness of what we are doing. There is a grand word that is going around, 'Boondoggling.' It is a pretty good word. If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this Depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come...
Manhattan-born in 1791 of English stock, shrewd, self-made Peter Cooper pioneered in iron manufacturing, built the first U. S. steam locomotive ("Tom Thumb"), promoted the first transatlantic cables, built one of the first big U. S. fortunes. An industrialist and inventor of genius, he won his most lasting fame by founding Manhattan's great free educational centre, Cooper Union. His creed...
Mother's Story, Born Maryon Andrews, Mother Hewitt has since 1902 been married successively to a rich California doctor, a Manhattan broker. Inventor Hewitt, a British baron, a Newark, N. J. lawyer. She has lost one husband by death, two by divorce, two by annulment. After her divorce, year ago, she resumed the name of Hewitt. Last week she was registered in a Manhattan hotel as "Baroness d'Erlanger." To her daughter's monstrous charges against her, Mrs. Maryon Andrews Bruguiere Denning Hewitt d'Erlanger McCarter replied with a blanket denial of everything except the fact...