Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cream of Wheat, Rainbow Dye, Pond's Extract, O'Sullivan's, Peter's Chocolate), of which he is now chairman. It is why the late Henry P. Davison called him, in 1903, to be secretary-treasurer of the Bankers Trust (Lament: "All my business life I have been borrowing money. I don't know how to loan it." Davison: "That's why we want you. We want a man who knows how the borrower feels and looks."); why George F. Baker summoned him five years later, to be vice president and director of the First National Bank, succeeding the same...
Alfred I. DuPont caused a survey to be made of Delaware's aged poor so that the legislature might be persuaded to pension them. Last year, after a similar survey, the legislators were apathetic, Mr. DuPont gave the money himself...
...Fund financed Lindbergh and Byrd in their undertakings. Fund money supported a weather service on the Pacific Coast, which the U. S. Government now runs. More money went to help the Royal Aeronautical Society (England), Aero-Club de France, Associazone Italiana d'Aerotecnica, Aero Club von Deutschland to collect and disseminate important technical information which otherwise would not be published. Syracuse University got $30,000 to develop aerial photographic surveying and mapping. For a flying laboratory in which to try out instruments which would permit flyers to go through fog and darkness went several thousand dollars; for prizes...
...amount) for an Airship Institute, to study lighter-than-air problems under supervision of the California Institute of Technology; 2) $140,000 for a Chair of Aeronautics in the Library of Congress; 3) the balance to some southern university for an aeronautical school. Which southern university will get the money depends upon the proved enterprise of its faculty...
...barmaid named Minnie is heroine of the David Belasco play which Puccini adapted. She keeps a saloon in a California mining camp, reads the Bible to drunkards, guards their money. Among them is Sheriff Jack Rance. He loves her, but Minnie, by the end of the first act, prefers Dick Johnson, outlaw in disguise. Rance obtains proof that Johnson is the bandit Ramarrez and tells Minnie. The big scene occurs when she confronts Johnson with her knowledge and drives him out into the storm. He is wounded just outside the door and she drags him in again and hides...