Word: shoestringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest catch of all was a munitions maker named Nicolas Malaxa. Having parlayed a shoestring into a chain of arms factories and a partnership in Rumania's largest iron works, he found his way into the confidence of Magda Lupescu and King Carol. When the Nazis took over and...
Founder Wright was an infant prodigy. Born in Massachusetts, he was reciting Greek and Latin to Williams College professors before he was ten. When his father took him west to keep the books of The Prairie Store, young Wright spent his spare time taking Chicago's first census, publishing...
The trucking industry grew too fast for its britches, is now a gangling, sprawling adolescent given to waste motions and tripping over its own feet. The U. S. has some 600,000 trucks operating for hire. Two-thirds of the owners are one-man, one-truck outfits started on a...
When Franklin Roosevelt let "Uncle Dan" Roper drowse on at Commerce for almost six years, it was apparent that he did not take very seriously the job which Herbert Hoover made one of the biggest in the Government. When the scandals of the 1938 Congressional campaign made Friend Harry'...
Son of a Presbyterian parson, "the best man I have ever known," wry-faced little John Buchan grew up in the poetry and parsimony of the Scottish border, went to Oxford on Caledonian determination and a shoestring, published his first book (Scholar Gipsies) to help pay his college expenses. He...