Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began the enterprise with his brother, Daniel Rothenberg, in grammar school, but he bought out his partner in the eighth grade for a couple of marbles and a quarter. The fowls represented were purely domestic chickens, turkeys, and ducks until he went overseas with the American Field Service in March...
...What? But what was the story? In two months of secret proceedings the committee had tried to find out 1) if Hughes and his wartime partner, Henry Kaiser, had used pressure to get and keep war contracts, and 2) what they had done with the $40 million the Government had given them to build war planes...
...winning editor of the Des Moines Register. The scientist was Robert Fox Bacher, 41, cool, deliberate, diplomatic, the head of nuclear research at Cornell University and one of the scientists who assembled, the first atomic bomb. The banker was Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 51, a mellow, courtly, impeccably dressed philanthropist, partner in New York's Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The industrialist was tall, rangy Sumner Pike, 55, a bachelor and adventurous industrialist with a shrewd, twangy Yankee humor...
Papa's union even included employers. He had found it advisable, in the case of small companies with only two partners, to make one partner join the union. Then he would "bargain" for the union with the other partner. In the face of this power, John McCauley, Brooklyn potato wholesaler, signed his contract without looking at it. "The union said everyone else was signing...
...soil last week also came down hard on the neck of an angular Irish inventor named Harry Ferguson. In 1939, Ferguson, who had perfected a hydraulic lift device to keep tractors from turning over when the plow hit obstructions, became old Henry Ford's "only partner." Ford had stopped making his Fordson tractor in the '20s when it lost money. But for Ferguson, Ford made 306,181 tractors, this time with the Ferguson lift. They were sold exclusively by Ferguson, Inc., which relied heavily on Ford dealers...