Word: salt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Graybar Electric Co.: Frank A. Ketcham, onetime stock clerk, to be President; succeeding A. L. Salt, onetime office boy, who becomes Chairman; following the company's sale by A. T. & T. to its employees...
After he got his journeyman's certificate, the Ellis shopboy set out to see what other railroad shops, and the western world to which the railroads ran, were like. He got as far as Salt Lake City, where he took a job in the Rio Grande & Western roundhouse. He got married and began studying in the International Correspondence School. Soon came his first big "break," the blown-out cylinder head, now famed among Chrysler admirers, which he and a helper mended in time to send the mail-train out on schedule...
...days later, at the hour of 4 a. m., somebody threw half a brick and a salt shaker through the window of Mrs. Maude Wilson's coffee shop...
...Argentine to improve local health: Certain night-flying moths there fly to the eyes of horses and suck the tears that their attacks cause. The same moths will settle on the skin of a sweating horse and drink at the salty perspiration. Hence, Dr. Shannon believes, the moths seek salt in the tears also...
There are more Mormons in London than in Salt Lake City, but their wives don't know...