Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge in a tunnel 75 feet below the surface of a hill near Ellensburg, Wash., he found "two handfuls of slimy, muddy substance." Few minutes after he had put this muck near a stove, it came apart, turned out to be six drowsy frogs. He took them home, where during the next two days they gradually sat up and began to hop, croaked loud enough to keep Blaster Jordan & wife awake nights...
...President Macauley was therefore greatly surprised to receive a visit from new Ford Sales Manager John Raymond Davis only ten days after the White House conference. Sales Manager Davis had a plan for joint action by all the makers including Ford. The A. M. A. directors took only 45 minutes to give it their okay. A straight-forward promotional scheme, the Ford plan means a one-week blare of 170,000,000 separate advertising messages via radio, magazine, billboard and newspaper aimed solely at selling used cars...
Iron Fireman has been for twelve years one of the few things for which coalmen could be thankful. In 1923, two years before the big anthracite strike that set the industry staggering, two Portland contractors, Thomas Harry Banfield and Cyrus Jury Parker, took over a small local iron works and with it a clumsy automatic stoker which they improved and called Iron Fireman...
...There is some indication," said hardworking, stiff-collared George Bucher, former executive vice president, "that the company's business may turn upward in the next few months." So saying, he took office as new president of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Westinghouse Electric (second in size to immense General Electric in the field of electrical equipment) in 1937 showed a $20,000,000 profit, the highest since 1929. But a better basis for Mr. Bucher's optimism was that at year's end Westinghouse had $63,000,000 of unfilled orders, enough to keep it busy for four...
...Meanwhile, in Maryland, big, serious, six-foot Author Allen had given up his New York story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell had taken her stand in Dixie, Pittsburgh-born Hervey Allen, whose grandfather had fought with the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, took sides with the boys in blue. Traveling on foot and by auto through the Shenandoah Valley, he gathered his material as resolutely and almost as slowly as his forefathers advanced upon Richmond...