Word: milford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pinchot, who lives at Milford, on the east edge of Pennsylvania, lately had a more trying experience than Mr. McFadden's question. She was being motored home from Towanda by William F. Hinkle, her chauffeur. Near Susquehanna, Hinkle collapsed at the wheel. The car dashed off the road, grazed a pole, stopped itself. Examining Hinkle, Mrs. Pinchot found he had come down with the measles. She got him in the back seat, wrapped him in a blanket, took the wheel herself...
...Water. Simon Lake of New Milford, Conn., submarine inventor, advised dumping oil on the waves to flatten them and permit divers to go down; also, telling the six survivors to keep their heads as high as possible in the torpedo room since carbon dioxide is heavier than...
...This was part of a speech by Mr. Sloan delivered before the automobile editors of the U. S. gathered at the General Motors proving grounds in Milford, Mich., as guests of the corporation. Later he informed the editors that he hoped the corporation would show earnings for the second half of 1927 as great, if not even greater, than for the second half of 1926. If this hope is fulfilled, G. M. C. will show net profits of $222,195,715 as against $186,231,182 for 1926. It is the liberal policy of the directors to distribute half...
...Authors have previously collaborated on two books?a History of the United States and American Citizenship. Previous to this collaboration, Author Charles A. Beard produced many works on history and jurisprudence, American and foreign. The Beards live at New Milford, Conn., whither they retired after Dr. Beard had professed politics with distinction at Columbia University, after Mrs. Beard had made a name as suffrage and labor student. Students now of civilization, their work is a potent civilizer...
...miners were not willing to give up their demand for higher wages and the checkoff, nor were the operators willing to yield either of these points. When his visitors had gone, Governor Pinchot said nothing. He turned his back on Harrisburg, the state capital, and went to his Milford home to think matters over for ten days...