Word: piped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat, is given to patting people on the back. Meeting J. P. Morgan at a recent Commencement, he is said to have patted the famous financier on the back and wished him luck...
...Amalgamated Clothing Workers. As long ago as 1931 Dr. Wolman was raising a lonely voice in behalf of just such a Federal set-up as NRA to control production and prices. Last week he bustled about his NRA office, dictating to three stenographers at once, puffing a ubiquitous pipe-a happy...
Dean Black's own methods in preventive dentistry are unique. When he reorganized the research department in Northwestern University's Dental School, he took on a metallurgist, two chemists, a pathologist, a physiologist and an anatomist. Ablest of these is pipe-smoking Pathologist Edward Howard Hatton, now the department's director, specialist in focal infection...
Much of the difficulty which the railroads ascribe to automotive and potential air and pipe line competition should and could have been relieved by an alert and aggressive railroad policy.-Report of the National Transportation Committee headed by the late Calvin Coolidge (TIME...
...founded Union Trust Co. to take care of Pittsburghers' estates. He backed his young nephew, William Larimer Mellon, in the oil business. John D. Rockefeller was driving all rivals to the wall. The Mellons planned, then built in haste a pipe line from their wells in Western Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies to the Delaware River. Rockefeller, who had stopped others, could not stop this swift, calculated move. Two years later the Mellons sold their pipe-line which had cost $2,500,000 to Standard Oil for $4,500,000. All this happened by 1895 when Andrew...