Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judging by the pranks of its pastors, Philadelphia is the most exhilarating vineyard in which a U. S. man of God may labor. There, Rev. Zed Copp, Presbyterian, crusades hotly against Santa Claus, Easter bunnies and the Stork, while spending his spare time transcribing...
...Terre Haute, Ind. in the 1870s one Jacob Baur ran a drugstore. When he needed soda water for his fountain, he would put some marble dust in a bottle, add sulphuric acid, capture the escaping carbon dioxide gas and pass it under pressure through water. In spare moments Jacob Baur worked on a machine to make carbonated water commercially. Soon he perfected the "coke" method now in use everywhere.* Raising $75,000, Druggist Baur went to Chicago, started the predecessor of Liquid Carbonic Corp. on Illinois Street just north of the Chicago River in 1888. For ten years he manufactured...
Revelation of how President Roosevelt occupied his spare time last November was made last week by his Assistant Secretary Stephen Early. The late William Forbes Morgan, Mrs. Roosevelt's uncle by marriage and treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, brought around to the White House a large box full of sheets of paper. Whenever the President had nothing else to do. he spent his time signing his name on sheet after sheet. By the time he was ready to sail for South America Nov. 17, the whole boxful was used...
When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...
...cannot be withdrawn without surrendering the insurance. Even if the policyholder leaves the savings untouched, he cannot keep his insurance unless, he keeps on saving. This works a particular hardship on hard-pressed policyholders who need protection, can afford to pay for protection alone but are temporarily unable to spare the additional savings called for by the contract and no longer able to pass a physical examination for a new policy if the old is lapsed. To borrow on a policy to pay premiums amounts to borrowing at, say, 6% to invest...