Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long has it been common knowledge that the phonograph and the radio were proving themselves formidable rivals to the piano. Long has American Piano unsuccessfully attempted to fight this rivalry. At the height of phonograph popularity in 1922. they bought the J. & C. Fisher Co. and Amphion Co., manufacturers of player-piano actions. Following acquisition Amphion perfected the Ampico reproducing attachments and although the manufacture of player-pianos has been practically discontinued, Ampicos are still distributed to Chickering, Knabe, Mason & Hamlin for installation in their most pretentious grands. This year American Piano added a complete line of radios to their...
...legal advisor to Equitable for ten years, most famed of his legal activities was to handle John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s ousting of Oilman Robert Wright Stewart from Standard Oil of Indiana. After his election, Mr. Aldrich frankly conceded he came to Equitable representing Rockefeller interests, confirming the long-held assumption that Equitable is controlled by the Rockefellers...
...form the largest tin smelting organization in the world. Behind the consolidation is seen the influence of Patino, the Anglo-Oriental tin interests, and the new Tin Producers' Association. From this merger which affects about half the world's tin supply, is expected to come the long-awaited stabilization of tin production and price, one of the purposes of the Tin Producers' Association...
...Athletic Union sent out some invitations with 5? stamps on them. There were five of them, addressed to the governing athletic bodies of Germany, France, Italy, England and Finland, asking 14 of the greatest runners in Europe to run in the U. S. this winter. Half-miler Tavernari and long-legged Hurdler Facelli of Italy, Joachim Buchner and Harry Storz, the German quarter-milers, and Sprinter Eldracher were asked. Among Finns, the invitations went to Harry Larva and Toivo Loukola, but not, for some reason, to Paavo Nurmi who, tinkering with an old automobile in his machine-shop in Turku...
Prosperous and slender, with light hair, big eyes, the hollow cheeks common to runners and the round skull common to Poles, Petkiewicz had journeyed over at his own expense. Runners who are being paid for by some club may only compete for 21 days, but Petkiewicz may stay as long as he likes-long enough to get used to board tracks, on which he has never contested. He studies law in the University of Warsaw. He wears a conventional grey coat, carries a sable to put on when the wind is chilly. He holds every Polish middle-distance record from...