Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Richards, a veteran of the World War, and a noted journalist, told how he came to invent the Robot. "What really caused its invention," he said, "was the need of an important person, to take the place of the Duke of York, in opening the Exhibition of the Society of Model Engineers, in London. Since I was secretary of the organization, I decided to make a Robot who could open the exhibition. After many disappointments, it was perfected and amid much excitement, the mechanical man made his debut...
...theory the court guards the bankrupt's assets, with all the moral rigor of the U. S. behind it. In practice the judge appoints a supposedly disinterested and trustworthy person as receiver who does the actual work, subject only to final court review. The Federal law fixes the service charges a receiver may make upon the assets, ranging from 6% on $500 or less, down to 1% on $10,000 or more. In effect the creditors pay the receiver from funds they would otherwise get. Thus receiverships are profitable political plums whereby many a lawyer swells his income...
Thus, while the studious person could work in peace, and the activity man could go the merry round of pleasure unhampered by difficult scholastic duties, those persons who fit in neither category would be without any recourse. Perhaps, under the McConn regime such controversies as Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare's plays could be decisively settled, but who would sell insurance...
...final round will be fought at the annual meeting of stockholders in Whiting, Ind., on March 7. It will be essentially a battle of proxies, though any holder of even a single share (purchased before Feb. 5) is entitled to be present and vote in person...
Three large and comparatively recent copper customers are the makers of radio sets, of washing machines, and especially of electric refrigerators. Total U. S. copper consumption in 1927 was 834,550 tons, or 14.15 pounds of copper per person. With the automobile industry planning to produce 3,000,000 cars and trucks during the first six months of 1929, with 1929 building expected to exceed 1928, and with various proposed railway electrification projects, copper demand should steadily increase...