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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irwin, the Review said, is next to Louis Braille as a benefactor to the blind. It was Irwin who succeeded in bringing literature to the blind through the medium of photographic discs known as talking books. He made the books for finger-reading both less cumbersome and less costly by half...
...statesman should be known by one or two features, not for a variety. Monocle and orchid were priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...
...party in Paris on his 57th birthday, James Joyce announced the completion of the book that for 16 years has been known to the literary world as Work in Progress. Its title: Finnegan's Wake...
Next step was for statisticians to compile and average these fragments, thus produce what are called general indexes of business. Probably best known of all such composite indexes is the Federal Reserve Board's 20-year Index of Industrial Production, a weighted monthly measure of the quantity of production in some 40 industries. By the time these data are collected and the index calculated, the information is several weeks out of date-and the F. R. B. index is at its best in answering the question, "How was business last month...
...Marcus Samuel, who had made Shell Transport & Trading Co. the most powerful oil company in England. They fought Standard Oil for a market in China, won it in spite of the millions of kerosene lamps Standard gave away. By this time Deterding was director of the combined companies, now known as the Royal Dutch-Shell group. For the next decade he busied himself grabbing up oil properties in Venezuela, Mexico, California...