Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most motorists know the names of the three men who rank just below Alfred P. Sloan in the management and operation of General Motors: William S. Knudsen, Donaldson Brown, Charles F. Kettering. Not so well known are the three topnotch assistants of Walter P. Chrysler: K. (for Kaufman) T. (for Thuma) Keller, Fred Morrell Zeder, B. Edwin Hutchinson. Engineer Keller was hired from General Motors by Walter Chrysler in 1926 to consolidate the manufacturing plants of Dodge Bros. He stayed on to become Chrysler vice president in charge of production. Mr. Zeder was chief engineer at Studebaker in 1924 when...
...There was no talk of birth or rank By the slung hammock or scrubbed plank In the steel-grated prisons where I cast him; For But rest - niggard and hours the and a naked light narrow on his space face - While the ship's traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. IV "Thus I speak at the schooled him word to - at go a and sign be come - dumb; To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished and - over all - To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus...
...France into opposing camps, Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards. After four years of solitary confinement and torture, Captain Dreyfus, white-haired at 39, was brought back from Devil's Island, tried again, re-convicted. Pardoned by the President in 1900, he was completely vindicated in 1906, given the rank of major, the cross of the Legion of Honor. In the World War he rose to brigadier general, served with honor, retired after the Armistice with a lieutenant-colonel's rank and pension...
...Vice President it means much to be a graduate of Congress. Calvin Coolidge and Charles Gates Dawes were rank outsiders when the country elected them to preside over the Senate. Not so Charles Curtis, and John Nance Garner, who knew from long service in Senate and House respectively Congressional rights and perquisites and how to get their share...
Diesel engines are the most important product in the long Fairbanks, Morse line normally accounting for about one-half of total sales. Electric motors, generators and appliances rank second. Fairbanks Morse is one of the biggest pump-makers in the U. S. It supplies railroads with inspection cards, water-tanks and coaling stations. But for every person who has seen a Fairbanks, Morse municipal power plant or a Fairbanks, Morse oil pipe-line pumping station, thousands in every corner of the civilized world have seen Fairbanks scales...