Word: underwood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Underwood Bookkeeping Machines combined the typing of records and mechanical calculating of accounts by a minimum number of processes. One operator does the work of several bookkeepers. Its basis is the Underwood typewriter...
...Illustrations, linoleum cuts by Leon Underwood, define and accentuate the grand flurry of action that the prose describes. Well imagined, brilliantly effected, they make it impossible to think of John Paul Jones without suddenly seeing him, fighting with a sailor at the Island of Tobago, firing a derisive musket in reply to a broadside, standing, like a lord, at the door of a ballroom where several ladies dance and one is bowing...
...Young of Minneapolis was designated a member of the Federal Reserve Board, to succeed Daniel Richard Crissinger (resigned) as governor of the Board as soon as confirmed in membership. To fill vacancies on the Anglo-American and Franco-American commissions.š the President chose Senators Lenroot of Wisconsin and Underwood of Alabama, respectively, to succeed the late Senator Gray of Delaware and the late one-time (1895-97) Secretary of State Richard Olney. ¶ "For a number of years it has been our custom as a nation to observe as National Fire Prevention Week, the week in which the anniversary...
...Manhattan, the Underwood photography service issued a picture of a monstrous cannon tilted skyward, ejecting from its muzzle a human figure. The cannon .was real, the figure a German woman who, at Berlin, allowed herself to be shot from the cannon into a net 40 metres distant, without injury...
...camera starts to work, out comes a strip of eight sepia photographs of the quarter-dropper, all in eight minutes. Photomaton, Inc. is backed by a syndicate of such famed figures as onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President Harbord of the Radio Corp., John T. Underwood (typewriters) and onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co. It has given every evidence of being a proverbial El Dorado to its investors. Major General Davis, soon-to-be Photomaton president, was born in Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 12, 1876, graduated from West Point...