Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kresge initiated the new department store chain on his 56th birthday. He began his career as a school-teacher at $22 a month, and after having been successively insurance agent, furnishings salesman, department store bookkeeper, tin-plate salesman, he went into business for himself with a capital of $8,000 with J. G. McCrory?now head of another large store system. From a single store in Detroit, the Kresge stores have expanded to a system of 223 stores throughout the country, which last year handled $65,000,000 of goods...
...Conn., June 12.--While adjusting the keel on a small model of a boat with which he was experimenting Hubbard's hand slipped so that the under side of his right wrist was cut by the sharp edge of the tin. He was taken immediately to the Naval Base Hospital, where several stitches were taken...
Thus-despite the recently Tin-earthed frauds exposed by the Prince of Monaco, the amazing credence of "bank-breakers with a system,"the usual official despondency over the Casino profits, the lack of "high play" and the increased cost of maintaining that costly establishment-the Casino has done well...
...Robert Grant '73 will be the guest of honor at the annual Union dinner this evening at 7 o'clock. Judge Grant, in addition to his legal accomplishments, is well known as a novelist, essayist, and author of short stories, including "The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl", 'The Little Tin God on Wheels", "An Average Man", "The Knave of Hearts", "The Bachelor's Christmas", 'The Convictions of a Grandfather", and many other volumes. He holds from Harvard the degrees of A.B. (1873), Ph.D. (1876), and LL.B. (1899) and from Columbia that of Litt.D...
...Ship; was employed for five years as " sociologist" head of the Ford plant; became so interested in the mind of Henry Ford that Ford psychology became his major study. Dr. Marquis' book,* cleverly written, is an examination of the Ford halo. It leaves that halo very big if somewhat tin...