Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North American subsidiary, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., received high praise from Judson Dickerman, Commission examiner. This Ohio company was called a "model concern which conforms to the best ideal of public regulations." Its rates (5? per kilowatt hr.) are low, its securities well secured, its management efficient, its service high-grade. Examiner Dickerman pointed out, however, as one possible reason for the Cleveland company's excellent record, the fact that it operates in competition with a municipal power plant which charges a nominal rate of 3? per kilowatt...
...because commemorative stamps carry the picture of one Marie Bard, artist's model, instead of Clarissa Harlowe (Clara) Barton's, cantankerous Red Cross foundress...
...Doris Doscher, a model who posed for Sculptor Carl Bitter when he made the statue, wrote to the New York Times: "I want to take this opportunity to offer my thanks to Mr. Pulitzer for enabling me to again stand exalted-and scrubbed-above the grounds on Fifth Avenue, generously spurting precious, clear water-flush, in these times of dried-up prosperity." Thomas Alva Edison announced that he would give no more of his annual examinations to scientifically-minded boys, no more scholarships. Explanation offered: none. The name of the Yale junior who last month in The Harkness Hoot attacked...
...industrial map.* Gentle, unimpressive, he is chairman of a potent body of British tycoons, the National Council of Industry, which he formed last year on a stout protectionist platform to save the Empire from the "muddlers" and "the old gang." His newest automobile, larger than many another "baby" model, will sell for $500-so far Britain's cheapest...
...Manhattan, Myrtle Miller, onetime artists' model, walked into a penny arcade, peeped into one of the undressed girl machines. There she saw herself in a number of poses. Forthwith she asked for an injunction. The court denied...