Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until his death in 1900, Publisher Daly is said to have spent some $5,000,000 on the Standard, which could have been a money-maker without his insistence on extravagance. After his death the bitter interest was gone, the paper waned in importance. As late as 1913 when great Anaconda Copper Mining Co. took it over from Widow Daly, it was the foremost sheet in Montana and dominated even in Butte, but not for much longer...
This deal gave Son Rand an urge to merge further. The same year he bought Index Visible, Inc. from Yale's Professor Irving Fisher. A few months later the new Rand Kardex Co. bought Library Bureau, Inc., maker of office furniture and library supplies. In 1926 the new Rand Kardex Bureau, Inc. sold $23,000,000 worth of office equipment, gathered profits of almost...
Cautious museum curators who pay enormous prices for Picasso abstractions recognize the dexterity of his line, his ability as a maker of patterns, realize that anyone who has exerted such an enormous influence on the art of today is deserving of honor...
Jester G. B. Shaw proposed last week that Britain wangle the U. S. into "a suspension of from 50 to 100 years." But the "Ford of Britain," Sir Herbert Austin, maker of midget cars, was quite serious when he said, "President Hoover's step will bring the greatest credit to the United States, but a three-year suspension would be more effective...
...Governor to find out why her garbage wasn't removed"); 2) addressed, as a onetime student, the graduating class at smart Groton School ("I have received letters from men of foremost prominence who have asked me why their garbage is not collected every day"); 3) lunched momentously with President-maker Edward Mandell House, Wilson's "silent partner," at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass...