Word: perman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose son, Cinemactor Frank Morgan (Francis Phillip Wupperman), is a vice president: "Isn't it strange how these things happen? Gobel, the great sausage maker, and my father-in-law, the pioneer traders in the great cattle of the Orinoco, were both Adolf-Adolf Gobel and Adolf Wup-perman-Wupperman in the town of Angostura, Venezuela, and Adolf Gobel in New York, both building on a lasting foundation for the benefit of humanity. Now at this late date, Gobel sausages and Angostura are linked-sausage links, if you like it that...
...gang of three miners with such teamwork that Stakhanov, the skilled pneumatic driller, was able to spend all his time drilling out coal, while the others did the propping and panting. By this means the three got out enough coal in a six-hour shift to raise their perman output about five-fold of what it had been when it was a case of no teamwork and every coalminer for himself...