Word: tinkerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every summer, to Palm Beach every winter. Kent yachts ply all the waters from Maine to Florida. The Kent garages must be big enough to hold a score of cars, for Mr. Kent dislikes driving the same car two days in succession. He used to buy them second hand, tinker them himself...
...argument with his chemistry professor, he worked with the State Water Survey Office testing Illinois River water, later with Chicago Storage Battery Co., where he became interested in the heat resistant qualities of metal conductors. William Hoskins, a consulting chemist, let Marsh use his lab oratory after work to tinker with alloys, later took him 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...
...Tinker With Currency...
...banking situation was met according to the original plan, he says, but the belief that you can tinker with the currency "just a-lee-tle" and control monetary inflation soon wrecked the sound financial program to solve the burden of debt...
...TINKER...