Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London famed H. Gordon Selfridge, rich U. S. proprietor of England's first and greatest department store, said, addressing London's Master Printers' Association: "I shall never be quite happy until I have a really good newspaper in London. If any one of you has a good newspaper you want to sell at a very low price, I shall be pleased to take it over or. talk the matter over with...
...shop and looked down at it later with savage Nordic melancholy. In The Wild Duck he wrote about a man who was the enemy of most people because he told the truth, even when truth-telling was tantamount to telling tales. Gregers Werle, the son of a rich Norwegian mine-owner, suspected that his libertine father had disposed of an old mistress by marrying her to Hialmar Ekdal, the son of a man whom the libertine had ruined. Gregers Werle tattles to Hialmar Ekdal, who is much too little a fool to disbelieve him. Knowing that his adolescent daughter...
Enriched Scientist. Georges Claude of France was the darling of the scientists and businessmen at the coal conference. His discoveries and applications of pure science have made him a rich man. Vast industries depend upon his inventions. He discovered how to dissolve acetylene in acetone; $20,000,000 worth of dissolved acetylene is sold over the world each year. He invented a way of liquefying air; the Air Reduction Co. has 30 plants using his process, is worth $25,000,000. He created neon lamps; cities and airports now glow redly, to his profit. He put waste coke oven gases...
Bears. When Radio broke a few points on Wednesday, the market tumbled swiftly after. Johns-Manville lost 9 points; International Harvester, 13; Adams Express, 10. Case Threshing Machine, "rich man's stock"*, dropped 19¾ points, closed...
Unlimited however is the field for sport planes and flying boats. Flying boats (Fairchild, Loening and Sikorsky are the leading makers) are useful for getting to the harbors of large cities from outlying airports and suburban homes. At present they are too expensive for all but rich businessmen...