Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owens Chronicle. The Owens-Illinois beginnings were ancient, humble. Michael Owens was by trade a blower of glass bottles. He blew, blew, blew, until he grew tired of blowing. In 1889 he stopped blowing, started thinking. Thirteen years of thought produced in 1902 the Owens Bottle Machine, as epochal in glass manufacture as the cotton gin was in the cotton industry. He patented his machine and, in partnership with Edward Drummond Libbey, started making bottles in a one-story frame building in Toledo, Ohio. Since they had patents on the only bottle-making machine in existence, they prospered. The Owens...
Wisconsin Bankshares Corp. was planned as a $350,000,000 holding company to combat outside bank chains desiring institutions in the Milwaukee trade territory...
That prognosis angered the operators. Cried one: "Mr. Brown does not seem to realize that, although it is true that transportation has always followed migration, which in this country has always been from east to west, the airplane is now opening up trade routes north and south. . . . The Post Office Department has never operated at a profit. Why should aviation transportation be discriminated against-reducing an inevitable deficit?" The fact that Mr. Brown's Toledo law firm, Brown, Hahn & Sanger, has represented certain railroads, made some of the airmen suspect, in their bitterness, that Mr. Brown was consciously...
...that story spreads, boys, I'm ruined. There are a lot of other ashmen in Portland, don't forget. Competition in this business is terrible. Once my customers get the notion I'm rich they'll give all their trade to my rivals. . . . Who knows what kind of a millionaire I'll make? I don't even know if I'll like it. I've never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash...
Tanager. Birdy are the trade names of many a plane. Most systematic in such nomenclature has been Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., with Hawk, Sea Hawk, Falcon, Condor (all birds of prey) and Fledgling. Last week Curtiss tested a new and unusually stable biplane. It has Handley-Page wing slots in both leading and trailing edges of its wings and is to compete for the Guggenheim Fund $150,000 safety prizes. The trade name chosen for this new plane was that of the gay and visually charming Tanager...