Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Livornese macaroni maker, 34-year-old Masini worked once as a stevedore, then as a mechanic, was sent to Milan by admiring townsmen. He claims that he never took a singing lesson, that the Milanese taught him only repertory. He made a debut in Livorno (Tosca) in 1928 and has sung since at La Scala and other leading European opera-houses...
...father who was a woolen crape-maker by trade and a fencer by hobby and a mother who excelled in flower-painting had a child. His name was Thomas Gainsborough, and he was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. This lad early showed a natural talent for drawing; by the age of ten he had sketched every interesting tree and cottage around Sudbury. In his uncle's grammar school he filled his textbooks with caricatures of the schoolmaster...
...splutters, and smothered rattles. After Harvard's second touchdown his cheer rose like unto the sereech of a siren. When his voice fell it was too late, for his false teeth had already fallen, presumably into the mess of feathers, flora, and surrealist architecture which some women's hat-maker is probably proud of. At least that was where he looked for it, much to the consternation of the woman thereunder...
...quarters in five scattered plants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Willis Carrier decided to move. Last week it was announced that Carrier Corp. had just completed a remarkable migration to Syracuse, N. Y., there to settle appropriately enough in the abandoned plant of H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., longtime maker of air-cooled automobiles. When Franklin closed down in 1934 it left not only a plant once valued at $3,000,000 but also, as Carrier Corp. observed in a letter to stockholders fortnight ago, an "excellent quality of workmen available in Syracuse in generous quantities." The plant was taken...
Abbott believes it is the largest U. S. maker of barbiturates, ephedrine products and arsenicals, also sells Haliver Oil, Metaphen, Chlorazene, Butyn" Estrone, some 1,200 other drugs grouped under such categories as vitamins, burn preparations, antiseptics, local anesthetics, hormones, pollens. Drs. Abbott & Burdick died years ago. President of Abbott Laboratories now is S. DeWitt Clough, who joined the company 33 years ago as sales manager, is still partial to high-pressure sales-technique. Also partial to good employe relations, he is generally popular with Abbott's 1,639 workers. They are about half as numerous as the rats...