Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas; Editor Kenneth Wilson Williams of the Eastman amateur publications. Mmes Roosevelt and Post were unable to attend the final judging, but the other three took their work seriously. For two solid hours newshawks waited outside glass doors while Inventor Maxim gesticulated with his glasses. Lecturer Thomas propped print after print on an easel. Editor Williams squinted, argued, paced the floor. Finally the judges emerged, smiling amiably and announced their decision. First prize of $1,000 went to Miss Mabel Graham of Lebanon. Ky. whose Portrait of Margaret, a picture of a laughing little girl in a party dress, clutching...
...summoned Inventor Haas to Washington, asked for a demonstration of his device, consisting of a leather thong to which was attached a small leather-covered cylinder. When suspended over gold-bearing ground, the indicator was supposed to vibrate. Explained Septuagenarian Haas: "I call it a mineral vibrator. . . . The principle on which it works is affinity with affinity. I have to have a gold affinity to detect gold. . . . My instrument is loaded with affinity. ... I tune in with my gold vibrator. It is like a radio. You dial until you get a certain station. . . . When I take it in my hands...
...first October stock-market crash in 1929, Good Humors were being sold in Cleveland and Chicago by a syndicate which bought out Inventor Burt's widow. On the day after the crash Speculator Meehan took $500,000 out of the market, bought into the syndicate...
Another world speed record was made last week by Major Alexander P. ("Sasha") de Seversky, Russian War ace, inventor, president of the Seversky Aircraft Corp. Accompanied only by his cocker spaniel, Vodka, he sent a 710-h. p. amphibian of his own design over a Detroit racecourse at 230.03 m.p.h., some 39 m.p.h. faster than the old mark. Unlike Record-Breaker Hughes, Pilot Seversky was well satisfied with his new amphibian record. But like Designer Hughes, Designer Seversky began tinkering his plane, muttered: "It'll go faster...
...Stanley of Morgan Stanley & Co. (there is no comma, no hyphen) was the Morgan utility expert, having been admitted to partnership in 1928 when the firm was exploring the power industry. His father was William Stanley, engineer, inventor (thermos bottles) and founder of what is now General Electric's works in Pittsfield, Mass. Born nearly 50 years ago in Great Barrington, Mass., Son Harold was the eldest in a family of nine, and his brother Clarance is now head of the Mellons' Union Trust Co. in Pittsburgh. After graduation from Yale where he led the intercollegiate championship hockey team...