Word: successful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Basis for Nickel's success-and also the reason why it is the international nickel company-is the chemical process for separating the copper from the nickel. Two small U. S. companies had the process, but very little nickel; Canada had plenty of nickel but no process. In 1902 Charles Schwab, now Bethlehem Steel's board chairman, helped to promote a merger of the U. S. and Canadian companies. In 1929 the major competitive mine in the Sudbury area was absorbed, and International Nickel reached its present form...
...world at large a quarter century ago the name of Herbert Clark Hoover meant exactly nothing. But Californians, particularly Stanford alumni, were already proud of Engineer Hoover's success and, regarding him as their most distinguished Londoner, usually carried letters of introduction when they crossed the Atlantic. Hence it was inevitable that when Benjamin Shannon Allen, a scholarly young reporter with an A. B. and A. M. in history from Stanford, was assigned to Associated Press's London bureau in 1910, he should soon make his way to the Hoovers' "Red House." For four years the friendship...
...secret of Venezuela's prosperity. The secret of Dictator Gomez' success is that he did not attempt to interfere with the foreign development of Venezuelan oil fields, so long as his personal "cut" was promptly paid. And he had the patriotism to reinvest all his loot in his own country. Gomez oil royalties went to build Gomez hotels, cotton mills, rubber plantations, model farms. When they failed he sold them to the Government. When they succeeded he kept the change. For years the legend persisted that Dictator Gomez kept a yacht with steam up night & day in case...
...grim joke to Chinese when Mr. Yin's hired Chinese mercenaries, escorted by Japanese troops, last week "captured" Tangku, port of Tientsin. If a renowned Chinese Marshal with a name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At week's end cables from Tientsin announced that the great "Scholar War Lord," Marshal Wu Pei-fu, had agreed to end eight years of erudite and pious seclusion in a Buddhist monastery to rule North China...
...young numbskull.'' It seemed that way to the theatre going public, too, for Caesar and Cleopatra had a long and prosperous run. The god Broadway was beginning to give her glory in good measure. Her What Every Woman Knows was a great personal and financial success, and the next year (1927), she took a chance on a play that had the unhappiest ending imaginable-the heroine, a Southern flibbertigibbet, shoots herself in the last act. This was Coquette, which had to be interrupted while Miss Hayes bore her new husband, Playwright Charles MacArthur, their famed daughter Mary...