Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domed Henry Fitzwilliam Woods, counting the words. When the keys spelled out "wonderful" both men cheered, put on their hats, went out to the nearest bar. There they toasted themselves, for from their assembly line had come the 5,000,000th word they had written for which somebody else took credit. Their business is producing and selling written matter at so much a word under the name of Ghostwriters Bureau, which they founded in February, 1933. The word "wonderful" was part of a speech they were writing for a Rotary Club luncheon in Kansas...
...sounding boards. It was no accident that the rise of his Daily Telegraph coincided with the slow death of the ostrich-eyed Morning Post. Lord Camrose's empire now includes 21 newspapers and more than 100 periodicals, which he divided last winter with his brother, Lord Kemsley, who took the Daily Sketch, Sunday Times (no connection with the Times), several provincial and Scottish papers...
...Relieved was the rest of the industry last week when Henry Ford took the initiative, boosting prices on certain models $15 to $35. *Republic strike losses may not be over. Suits for $220,000 damages were filed last week against the company and three of its employes by two men wounded and the estate of one man killed in the Massillon massacre and by the estate of another killed in Youngstown...
...view of the effect of Andrews' cavalier administration. Having been a vice-president and director of the old Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. and a director of its successor, Graham Paige, he also knew a great deal about the independent automobile business. In the spring of 1936 Bradley took counsel with Hupp's director of sales and chief engineer, drew up an analysis of the company which he put before the directors in June. Gist of it was that with Hupmobile's reputation still high among car-owners* all Hupp needed was working capital...
...Gibbon stalked about the neighboring fields "compelling the peasants to agree at the sword's point that Mile Curchod was the most beautiful person on earth." But when, after Suzanne had accepted him, his father refused to consider a penniless foreigner for a daughter-in-law, Gibbon took only two hours to admit his father was right, a crisis later summed up in his famed line: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...