Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing all the raw materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own." There being some trouble over renting an office floor, he said, "buy the building." To quote Sullivan again...
Court tennis is still played with a lopsided racquet, a low net, a court with a sloping roof. Each point is played twice. The spot where a player loses a point is marked and then the other player tries to beat this mark. On the net line sit individuals chanting in a monotonous voice. "Four-better than three-worse than three. . . ." The ball, harder and almost as heavy as a baseball, makes bulletlike noises as it hits the walls. Extra racquets are piled at the side of the court. Breaking one, a player grabs another, finishes the point. Sometimes...
...headquarters of the road, to ascertain its value. It was a long sort, of job, as the Interstate Commerce Commission learned later. The road did not pay. Colonel Green established himself at Terrell, became a prominent figure in Texan Republican politics. It is still repeated in Texas that Mark Hanna himself put him on the governor's military staff, which made Capitalist Green of Manhattan a Texan Colonel. The Colonel paid the railroad's deficit regularly every year. It was his plaything. Last week the Southern Pacific bought Texas Midland, adding 125 miles to 16,601 miles. Colonel...
Young sales managers with bright ideas searched through books on mythology for an international trade-mark intelligible to all nations in all languages, for Vacuum oil lubricating supply stations were dotting the earth, even to imperceptible islands of distant seas. The bright young men hit on the roc, huge bird that took Sindbad's baggy pants in its beak and carried him across mountains to drop him into a gully full of diamonds. But here a language difficulty arose. Roc sounds like rock. In German petroleum is rock-oil (Steinöl). Most unfortunately the bird of Persian mythology...
...Smithsonian Institute in behalf of the Langley airplane, Orville Wright, co-designer with his brother of the first man-carrying machine, finds that credit is stinted the achievement. His subsequent disposition of the Kitty Hawk plane as a gift to the South Kensington Museum is decidedly a mark of displeasure that benefits the English institution while depriving the American one of a monument to courage and ingenuity, as well as to the first conquest...