Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black hair and a vast walrus mustache. Hearty and good-natured, he lives simply, drinks only wine and smokes not at all, travels always in the cheapest class. The income from his books,* his lectures and his infrequent organ recitals in Europe goes to support his village of corrugated iron buildings on the banks of the Ogowe. There "Oganga" expects to die. He explains: "Through the spirit of Jesus I became conscious that a man can be called to a place without knowing exactly just why. For years I have been preaching about Christianity. But inwardly I was longing...
Science has given housewives the mechanical dishwasher, the tireless cooker, the cherry stoner, the self-agitating cocktail shaker, the cast-iron pea sheller. but not until last month did U. S. housewives have a machine to make cream...
...year-old Fowler McCormick, heir to International Harvester Co. millions. Fowler McCormick went to work at $35 a week for the company his other grandfather founded, lived in a $4-a-week boarding house, pitched horseshoes with his fellow workmen during lunch hour. From heaving 200-lb. pig iron ingots, he moved to engineering and on to sales, becoming assistant manager of domestic sales in 1933. Last week hard-working Fowler McCormick was elected vice president in charge of foreign sales...
Manhattan was a hustling little city of 124,000 when Samuel Lord opened a dry goods shop on Catherine Street in 1826. In those days most stores hired "pullers in" who fought for customers on the sidewalks. But the young British iron moulder who had borrowed $1,000 for his trading venture and taken in as partner a cousin named George Washington Taylor, had more genteel ideas about storekeeping...
Lord & Taylor's moved twice more but both moves were very nearly disastrous. In the 1870's it re-opened on Broadway in the first iron-framed building in Manhattan. Depression followed, new partners with fresh capital were sought and before the Century's turn the last of the Lords and the Taylors were out. The second crisis occurred just before the War when the store moved to its present location on Fifth Avenue. By then a unit in a chain of department stores, Lord & Taylor's was saved by the banks after the failure...