Word: keen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continual and exclusive interest in the cheap vehicle. Finally, in 1914, they retired from the Ford Motor Co., later cashing in their investment at a colossal profit, and set up for them- selves as the Dodge Brothers Automobile Co. In the higher-price car field, they at once encountered keen competition. Yet their experience, engineering skill and ability in marketing their product soon led to a second success even surpassing their part in the first...
...period, Dillon, Read & Co. refinanced the then tottering Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., and from this fact some have thought that a merger with Dodge Brothers and possibly other motor and motor-equipment firms might be planned, of a size and importance to rival General Motors. The motor industry faces keen competition and undoubtedly calls for consolidations. But Dillon, Read & Co. denied the existence of any immediate plans for such consolidation...
Frank R. Kent, keen, knowing Democratic correspondent, wrote to his newspaper, The Baltimore Sun: "A whole flock of revived reports, emanating from here, about changes in the Coolidge Cabinet have gone flying over the country. A great many people believe them...
...question of whether or no Britain is to replace sterling on a gold basis has drawn businessmen, bankers, economists and others into a keen controversy. Recently, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna and the sensational John Maynard Keynes were called to the bar of the House of Lords to give their views on the gold question. Mr. McKenna was in favor of resuming gold pay ments; not so Mr. Keynes. The latter, has by now developed an instinctive hatred of anything suggestive of currency and price deflation. Revision to a gold standard, he says, would merely render Britain subservient...
...bred in the valley of the River Aire (tributary to the Ouse), in England. The old English Terrier, a strong, fearless dog, good for vermin and dead game, lacked a good sense of smell. So the people of the Aire valley crossed it with the Otter Hound, making it keen-scented and giving it better watermanship. Other crosses were made to improve the breed. The dogs were first known as Waterside Terriers. The Airedale Agricultural Society, at a farm show, held the first exhibition of this class of dogs in 1879, and decided to give them the name Airedale...