Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Augustine Farrell began his business career at the age of 16 in the employ of the New Haven Wire Mill. That was in 1863. Twenty-five years later he transferred his services to the Pittsburgh Wire Co., became superintendent of the factory. From then on he shot ahead with the rapidity and brilliance of a meteor. In 1911 he became President of the U. S. Steel Corporation- probably the greatest executive position in the indusrial world. His success is no doubt due to his thorough training as a workman. At the age of 61 he is still an ardent...
...last seven years, 176 graduates of low grade medical colleges secured licenses through the eclectic board, and of these 176, 166 were graduates of the Kansas City College of Medicine and Surgery. This was one of the two medical schools shown to have been involved in the diploma-mill (ring, exposed first by the St. Louis Star. The publicity and scandal aroused by this expose presumably had no serious influence on the eclectic board in Arkansas. This board licensed 36 graduates of low grade schools during 1923. Such states as reciprocate in the matter of licensure with Arkansas must...
...rate, foreign countries are experimenting with cotton growing. The British mill interests are encouraging it in Egypt and India. Argentina recently brought in an experimental crop of 120,000 bales?a trivial amount now compared with the huge American crop. Nevertheless the Argentines, flushed with their successful competition with our wheat growers, are becoming enthusiastic over the possibilities in Argentine cotton. Thus far the boll weevil has not appeared there, but the customary labor shortage is considered to preclude any very great cotton production in the Argentine, at least in the near future...
When the U. S. Steel Corporation acquired its own railroad lines to expedite the passage of its raw material and products from mine to mill, much comment was occasioned. In recent years, the example set by the Steel Corporation has been followed by Henry Ford in acquiring the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad...
...traditional at graduate's night that every number shall be recalled for every possible encore, every female star (and especially the entrance of the debutante chorus) shall be greeted by whinnies from the house, every exchange of fun met with labored groans, and that thereafter the graduates who will mill out into the night shall wag their beards like the old man on the walls of Troy and say that this is the best show the Pudding ever gave, or not the best, depending on the individual sap-content...