Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King" Howeson had even a more spectacular rise from humbleness. With an obscure jute career behind him, he turned up in London about 15 years ago, changed his name for no apparent reason, set out to impose an economy of scarcity upon the world's tin industry. By the end of the 1920's he was master of a $165,000,000 group of British companies, mainspring of the potent International Tin Committee and a power in Empire affairs. The tin restriction plans which were incorporated in an international pact signed at The Hague in 1931 originated with...
...somebody don't do something about it, we're going to have a revolution," prophesied Andrew J. "Bossy" Gillis, spectacular mayer of Newburyport when interviewed at his cut-rate filling station...
...background the college graduate definitely has as good a chance to succeed on the stage as anyone brought up in the business. "The hard part," said Toby, "is to get started. You have to attract attention if you're unknown, and my advice is just to do something spectacular...
That was not precisely the climax to a spectacular career that Mr. Graustein anticipated. When he took command of International in 1924, he found that the company had chopped down most of the forests near its U. S. newsprint mills, that its machinery was largely obsolete. He proceeded to build and buy enormous new plants in Canada and Newfoundland, where the pulpwood supply was handy and adequate. And since papermaking requires more power per worker than any other industry, except possibly electro-chemicals, he built hydroelectric plants to turn his paper mills. While he was about it, he installed enough...
...January 1935 it was bought by E. Manchester Boddy (pronounced Boady). Twelve years ago slight, dapper, pencil-mustached. Manchester Boddy, a gassed and wounded A. E. F. lieutenant, was organizing the Mexican Year Book Publishing Co. He saw his chance to step up in the world when the spectacular publishing ventures of Cornelius (Farewell to Fifth Avenue) Vanderbilt Jr. collapsed; talked the receivers into letting him publish Vanderbilt's Los Angeles tabloid. Publisher Boddy made good his sales talk by building the Illustrated Daily News into one of the Coast's outstanding newspapers, noted for its bold...