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...into the firm of Mariner & Hoskins. That is where Chromel was born. Hoskins Co. was incorporated in 1908, marketing an electric furnace developed during the Chromel experimentations. Next year the company was moved from Chicago to Detroit. Hoskins dropped out in 1910, and Marsh was faced with the strenuous job of marketing a product for which there was yet little need. When General Electric began making the alloy for itself, Mr. Marsh pressed a long-lived patent infringement suit, finally in 1915 compelled that firm to buy a part interest in Chromel patents. The memory of the time spent...
Getting down to fundamentals sooner than any other squad in the memory of experienced observers, Coach Dick Harlow's gridders ran through a fast, strenuous practice on the greensward of Soldiers Field yesterday...
...into space as if she saw no audience. The neurasthenics liked her, and so did many a healthy German who saw her frequently thereafter. Some were baffled by her meaning, but her gymnastics appealed to all. prompted the vogue of Tanzgymnastik, the physical culture drive which swept Germany, made strenuous acrobatic dancing an exercise almost as common as a Sunday hike...
Seems to me you have overlooked a very important part of their campaign, which consisted in their no less strenuous combats to get cash from their various and sundry State governments. In these engagements they were uniformly successful all along the line. I know that some twelve years ago my State of Illinois, after a hot campaign in which the opponents of the bonus were branded as being unpatriotic and slackers, voted them a State bonus, and $55,000,000 worth of bonds were sold in order...
Only the most strenuous remonstrance by Economics Minister Dr. Hjalmar Schacht obtained respite last week for Germany's 25,000 Jewish traveling salesmen whom Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick would deprive of their licenses. "Jewish traveling salesmen," according to Dr. Frick, "tell stories and spread rumors all over the Fatherland which are contrary to the welfare of the nation...