Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into furniture manufacture. First products to be exploited are office chairs-"easy chair comfort when you need it most." The material (upholstered) is as stout as mild steel and much lighter. The chairs, and other furniture already on sale, are coated in the exact grain of wood-mahogany, walnut, oak. When professional furniture manufacturers adopt aluminum (bought from Aluminum Co.) the company's executives will be happy. They do not want to fabricate goods-cooking utensils, motor casings, furniture, or anything else...
Banks. Dr. Charles E. Beury, president of Temple University and of the National Bank of North Philadelphia, last week became chairman of the newly-organized Philadelphia Bank and Trust Co. Component parts of the new $23,000,000 bank are: National Bank of North Philadelphia, Oak Lane Trust Co., Queen Lane National Bank, Broad Street National Bank...
...week of jingles, Poet MacLeish remembers the poet's lay, to keep it lyric. The wind in the grass is still, as in his earliest writings, a spiritual phenomenon. But he has since found power in harsh words-"an oak screams in the wind . . . the wet wood smoke blinds...
Jean A. Lussier was the third human being to remain alive after accomplishing this courageous and stupid feat. First was Annie Upson Taylor in an oak barrel in 1901. Second was Bobbie Leach in a steel barrel in 1911. Sixteen years ago Jean Lussier had worked in the machine shop where Leach's barrel had been made. That was where he had received his inspiration...
These words were addressed by Dr. John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton University, in a loud voice, to a pair of oak doors. He knocked loudly on the doors three times and a squeaky little voice was heard coming from the inside. Soon the doors opened and a face, under a little red cap, thrust itself between them. This was the face of famed Architect Ralph Adams Cram. The doors were those of the new, huge, Gothic Chapel designed by Architect Cram and built at a cost of $2,000,000, for Princeton students to worship in. The chapel, larger...