Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That unusually shrewd president of a university, Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, last week set going a sure money maker for his school. It is the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which will commercialize and exploit all patentable scientific developments made at the university. Profits will finance further research...
...Although 18 years a motor maker, Sir William has plowed all his profits back into his business. He announced last week that this year, for the first time, he will take a modest dividend of ?250,000, will plow in the remaining ?1.100,000 profit for the year...
...impossible, 10,000 people were known to be homeless; there were 172 identified dead. Heavy were the subscriptions to relief funds, bringing the estimated total to $500,000. Largest individual subscription: $20,000 from Sir Basileios (Basil) Zacharias Zaharoff of Monte Carlo, famed "Mystery Man of Europe," munitions maker, promoter of "wars...
...profitable order for 20,000 round celluloid chips. Too familiar were they with Vienna's fantastic deviltries to ignore such a scent. They found the little celluloid manufacturer patiently, innocently producing replica after replica of the Monte Carlo Casino's 100-franc chips. Anxiously the comb-maker regarded his visitors. When they inquired about the order, he spoke tremblingly of one Simon Rappaport, Polish merchant from Dombrowa...
What Publisher Martin intends to do with the Inquirer is still a secret between him and his maker, Father-in-Law Curtis. Shrewdest journalistic surmise is that he bought it primarily to keep it out of rival hands...