Word: trimmers
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...souls on board. Eight (the captain said seven) had been saved by the Paris, 13 by the American Legion; Captain Ludwig Hassell, his wife, daughter and dog, by the Brooklyn. Six men had disappeared. They were all Norwegians: a donkeyman, two firemen, a deckhand, an able-bodied seaman, a trimmer. Newspaper presses roared. The rescued told their different stories. Cables flashed from New York to Paris. The Norwegian consul started an investigation. The captain of the Brooklyn denied that his men did not know how to lower the boats. In the high towers of Manhattan people lay listening...
...Stock Exchange had put the price above the value. This was not cynicism or bad business; it was simply the viewpoint of a producer. Until 1891 he was a farmer and he knows that it takes time to grow a good crop. After that he became a carriage trimmer and later began to apply his crop-growing abilities to motor firms. By 1910 he was President of the Buick Motor Car Co. Later he served four years as President of General Motors. In 1916 he founded the company which bears his name, a business which is the greatest crop...
...First, Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget, compressor of "appropriations, trimmer of estimates, saver of cents and of centimillions, propounded the now old story of the Federal Budget and the economies which it has wrought. He pointed out that, in 1921 (the last pre-budget year), the U. S. Government spent over $5,000,000,000 and that today it is spending about $3,000,000,000 a year-an annual saving of more than...