Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harvey Samuel Firestone, 70, tiremaker; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami Beach, Fla. In 1894, while a buggy salesman, young Harvey met and helped Henry Ford, then devising a chassis for the gasoline motor. Six years later he founded Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., with 17 employes. In three decades he was paying 20,000 workers in the U. S., 20,000 Liberians on African rubber plantations. Last year his company made $9,300,000. Besides Ford, his closest friend was the late great Thomas Alva Edison. A little man, shy, well-groomed, he raised horses, and dairy cows...
...Francisco Samuel Goldwyn, hard-working film producer, released a pithy Goldwynism: "I go to a movie every night. Why not? I've got to do something to take my mind off my business...
...make it easy for Chicagoans to get such serums the late Samuel Deutsch, Chicago steelman, established a Serum Center at Michael Reese Hospital, which now stocks serums against infantile paralysis and scarlet fever as well as measles. But in all the U. S. there are only six similar serum centres-Manhattan, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit...
When Philadelphia's hard-bitten Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was prevented from spending $70,000,000 for a nitration plant, he angrily called the city's drinking water "filtered filth!" But when Dr. Haven Emerson, lanky, zealous Manhattan authority on public health, swooped into Philadelphia last week and whooped: "The water supply here is worse than that of any other large city in the country," then Mayor Wilson, just out of sickbed, roared: "Sniping...
...been −−−−ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." Legend has it that these were the words of a hawk-eyed, six-foot Bessarabian Jewish immigrant named Samuel Zemurray who stormed into a meeting of the Bostonian directors of United Fruit Co. in 1932, thumped down on the long table in front of them enough stock certificates and proxies to give him control of the $187,000,000 company. Sam Zemurray got into the banana business in Mobile, Ala. in the early 1900s as a jobber, later peddled United...