Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back in 1909, one Fred Wardell became a "one-horse distributor" of electric vacuum cleaners. While he himself canvassed, his sole employee-a girl stenographer-ran his entire office. After four years of this, he proceeded to buy out the manufacturing end of the business, and acquired five men to help him run it. During the dark days of 1920, these five stuck to Wardell and his vacuum cleaners. Today, the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., Detroit, is the largest manufacturing concern of its type in the world, with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding and no bonds or preferred ahead...
...rumor ran a bit about Wall St., and then a great deal more rapidly about the press that Jesse L. Livermore, famed stock operator, had quit the market for good. It said that he, having made millions and lost them several times, was now at one of the peaks of his success (estimated at $20,000,000) and that he intended to get out. It was said that he had had all the tickers removed from his office, even that he had not traded in a share of stock for as much as a year...
...Wardens held a contest to raise funds for a new fire truck, asked the citizens of Boonton to guess how long it would take a fully wound watch to run down. One T. C. Carbonell guessed 34 hours 35 minutes. In 34 hours, 34 minutes, 52 seconds, the watch ran down...
Alfred Milner was born 71 years ago, the son of a modestly fortuned country physician. Educated in English, in German schools, at Oxford, he became a barrister. From law, he turned to politics. He ran, or, as the English say, "stood" for Parliament as a Liberal-and was defeated. So he became private secretary to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Soon satellites began to revolve around him and he became, if not popular, at least "well thought of." His political ascent was rapid...
...Shearer, whose wife, sharp of nose and tongue, came from Péche à Agneau in the island of Sark, ran the George. Daniel, his son, was the friend of Ernley Munk, the heir to the Crown...