Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mozart with Hindemith. Those in the audience who had seen Szymon Goldberg ten years before might reasonably have been surprised that he had not changed more. In Java on a concert tour, he and his wife had been interned by the Japanese in 1943 as Polish nationals. In 2½ years he had been in 14 prison camps, separated from his wife for all but five months (she managed to keep his Stradivarius...
Young Edbury Hatch had just picked the wrong trade. When he was a boy in Newcastle, Me., the town had supported ten busy shipyards and every new vessel needed a carved figurehead. But by 1870, when William Southworth discharged Hatch, business was starting to fall...
...just a ten-minute talk at a Rutgers convocation, but long enough for the speaker, Philosopher Houston Peterson, to peddle a provocative thought. Why didn't everyone at Rutgers read one good book a year-the same good book? Added Peterson: "On a university campus, we ought to have more to talk about than football, girls and the Russians...
...thing we know . . . best is how to run a cash & carry business." There are no charge accounts or sales slips, no alterations or deliveries in Nathan ("Ned") Ohrbach's book on how to run a clothing store. If a dress is not sold in ten days, Ned knocks it down to cost; after another week he cuts it to half the cost (but seldom has to). Last year his two Ohrbach's, Inc. stores - on Manhattan's shrill 14th Street, and in Newark, N.J. - made a handsome profit of $1,500,000 on close to $40 million...
...More Rhubarb. Few businesses grew more spectacularly. In 1889 the Childs brothers, Samuel and William, opened their first restaurant in Manhattan's old Merchant Hotel. Within ten years they earned enough to open ten more; then, on $1,000,000 put up by Oil Promoter A. W. Harris, their white-tiled restaurants mushroomed over the East...