Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greyhound. In corporate structure, Greyhound lines is a complicated affair, more complicated than the average railroad. Its central root stretches to Hibbing, Minn., where one Carl Eric Wickman, Swedish immigrant, was working in the mines in 1912. That year the town was moved three or four miles away, and Wickman bought a seven-passenger used Hupmobile, started transporting workers, made $2.25 the first trip. He slowly expanded his service, in 1914 incorporated Mesaba Transportation Co., operated a line from Hibbing to Duluth. In 1924 he joined his lines and some others to form Northland Transportation Co. which a year later...
...Manhattan the name of Statesman Elihu Root became implicated in a squabble between one Lawyer Thomas J. Meehan and his family. Lawyer Meehan's son Francis, 26, told a story of how his father had eaten and cracked peanuts while Elihu Root was delivering a commencement address at Hamilton College in 1924. Francis Meehan said his father had "gone off to some drinking dive" during the commencement proceedings, but had returned in time to be "the cynosure of all eyes" and, "solely for the purpose of heaping indignity upon my mother," had cracked peanuts at Elihu Root...
Said Elihu Root last week: "I do not recall the incident...
Little over a year ago Albert Einstein announced his field theory, asserting a definite relationship between electricity and gravity; asserting that they are interrelated to the extent that they are expressible by common equations. To the world he gave out the root formulae of his invention, called field equations (TIME...
...Wahnfried during the period that followed was perpetrated the great Wagner lie, or such is the contention of Philip Button Hum and Waverly Lewis Root in a book published last week called The Truth about Wagner,* Their reference is to Mein Leben, perhaps the most elaborate autobiographical account left by an artist. Authors Hum and Root claim now that much of it is false, base their statements on a manuscript collection made by the late Hon. May Burrell, wife of the Hon. Willoughby Burrell, daughter of a mathematics professor at Trinity College. Dublin. Mrs. Burrell had herself intended to write...