Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 1933, Collier's published a short story called '"On a Lady's Advice." by Edward Gardner Jr. Plot: Scatterbrained young Betty Woods repeats to her stock broker husband a tip which her dress maker has received from a woman whose name Betty Woods does not know. The tip turns out to have come from an astrologer. By the time Jerry Woods finds this out, he and his friends have bought the stock and made money. Betty Woods has bought before gossip sent the stock up, sold for a profit on the bulge caused by the talk...
There are many mathematical formulas for figuring interest rates on co-maker loans such as Morris Plan loans. One formula widely used...
Left. By George Ehret, German-born brewer, founder of Manhattan's old Hell Gate Brewery, maker of once famed Franziskaner: $39,801,569; $105,000 to charity, $50,000 to a sister-in-law, the rest to six children and a grandson. He died almost seven years ago, aged 92 (TIME...
Aggie Appleby, Maker...
...years of age, on the threshold of the exit from life, ready to meet my Maker," Henry Martyn Leland was still fighting Henry Ford. When the founder of both Cadillac Motor Car Co. and Lincoln Motor Co. died the next year his cause passed into the hands of his son and his grandson. For a decade this "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry," who had made rifles in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal during the Civil War and Liberty motors in his Lincoln plant during the World War, tried to make Henry Ford acknowledge an obligation not to himself...