Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a 20th Century story about a little man who did no harm, saved his money, lived in the sun and fell in love with a steam roller...
...Haynes has suffered only one turndown-from the Plumbers & Steam Fitters union, on the grounds that such exceptions would create an unfortunate precedent. "Your people don't belong in these big industrial centers," a union official told him. Haynes replied that his church is working on a back-to-the-country campaign...
...terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn will come. . . . The self-starter never allows his steam to run down. . . . Everything may not be for the best, but let's make the best of everything...
...shippers argue that the new ships' greater speed and better utilization of space will make up part of the greater cost. Three new ships, they claim, do the work of four old ones. But many a British shipping man also agreed with I. C. Geddes, of the Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., whose new $12,000,000 Orcades, a 31,000-ton passenger ship, was recently launched. "In addition to running costs," said Geddes, "these two ships [the Orcades and a sister ship to be built] will have to earn something in the neighborhood...
...Winter and Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Training, will chase the required Freshman physical training program indoors Monday, as '51 abandons touch football, tennis, and single sculling for steam-heated basketball, boxing, special exercise, and wrestling...