Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Edward Boeing, 47, founded Boeing and soon bought control of Pacific. He entered the transport business to make money out of mail, express and passenger carriage, but more especially to have sure buyers of the planes he was making at Seattle. He got into plane-making literally by accident. One day in 1917 he grew angry because his private plane cracked up with him. He decided that he could build better ones. A rich lumber and mining man, he could and did put vast wealth into the industry. His factory is now rated the largest...
...returned to years between the first spark of Edisonian genius and the visible glow of its social application. Between laboratory and layman stand innumerable middlemen, not the least important of whom are usually a few bankers. Inventor Edison at 35 was by no means financially ignorant. He understood that money, though social rather than "natural," is a force not unlike electricity, with sources and laws of its own. A respecter of such forces, he turned to financial experts in 1882, when it was time to incorporate the first Edison Electric Light...
...recently acquired young partner of the old New York banking firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co. Boston born and bred, he had already established among the more flamboyant New Yorkers a quiet reputation as a thorough investigator and sound organizer of the projects into which men put money...
...late Melville Elijah Stone, longtime Associated Press General Manager, gave, like the late great John Wanamaker, most of his money to his family before he died. Last week, it was announced he left an estate of "not more than...
...this time father was a rattled wreck; He didn't drink, he had anxiety, My mother, everything; he couldn't solve The money matter. My brother had flown off To work his way through School. And there I was In rooms that fronted on a business street Over a candy shop, there in that old, Lonely and desolate Virginia town...