Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...houses were still aflame. As they burned themselves out, the total casualties mounted to nine dead, 180 injured. Next day Bergen County officials rejected the theory that the explosion was caused by the heat of the sun, set to work on clues of incendiarism. They questioned Alexander Schein-zeit, owner of the celluloid plant, who said he had had labor troubles and had also been warned by business rivals that he was in for a "bitter fight." Another possible cause for the explosion was a knife-type electric pull-switch which Labor Inspector John Roach found in the ruins...
...water which would not run at all. . . . Men in those regions . . . make their plans on a large scale, and they who come after them fill up what has been wanting at first. Those taps of hot and cold water will be made to run by the next owner ... if not by the present."-Anthony Trollope...
...track ran rosy Lord Derby as the crowd cheered. He led Hyperion around the ring, then went to receive the congratulations of the King. Jockey Tommy Weston, bubbling with joy. cried jubilantly: "He's a jolly good horse and ran a jolly good race for a jolly good owner. I am the proudest jockey in the world...
...catching championship by catching baseballs thrown to them from the top of a 625-foot Sky Ride tower (see p. 14). When a mathematician found that the balls would be traveling 136.80 miles an hour, would strike with an impact of 6,604 foot pounds, White Sox Owner Louis A. Comiskey refused to risk his players...
...Herbert Hoover (TIME, April 10), it was announced last week after a meeting of the road's directors that Mr. Mills had purchased a controlling interest in the road. Built (to connect the Comstock silver lode with Reno) in 1869 by Darius Ogden Mills, grandfather of the present owner, Virginia & Truckee was controlled in recent years by the Mills and Sharon estates of San Francisco. Rising silver prices, discovery of a new lode at Virginia City have made prospects of the road look up; its purchase by Mr. Mills gave Nevada the idea that the silver mining business must...