Word: underwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month American Sugar Refining, $300 a month Armour & Co. (now nothing), previously $1,000 a month, still earlier $40,000 a year American Express (formerly) $3,000 a year Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (formerly) $20,000 a year International Paper, about $2,000 Stone & Webster (formerly) $1,500 Underwood Elliott Fisher, about $2,000 Western Union Telegraph, about $3,000 Finance Co. of Great Britain & America (formerly) about...
Married, Katherine Duchatel Johnson Kugeman, daughter of Author Owen McMahon Johnson, granddaughter of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy Robert Underwood Johnson; and C. Sterling Bunnell, Manhattan banker, onetime (1921-24) Yale footballer; in Budapest...
...that was produced in Tulsa, the most interesting part was left out. Mr. Carlo Edwards, it is true, directed the Opera A'ida, but the first opera produced by the Tulsa Civic Opera was La Boheme, directed by an Indian woman. This woman, a Chickasaw, Daisy Maud Underwood, is a real Indian princess, her name being Princess Pakanli. She, with the aid of Hugh Sandidge, ,veteran operatic tenor of Memphis, Tenn., worked for two years under the most adverse conditions to get opera started in Oklahoma. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory with a great voice...
...school misspellers started the research which eventually led to the Dvorak-Dealey keyboard. Professor Dvorak about ten years ago wondered why high school typists constantly misspelled 50 common words** which first-and second-year school children know. The fault lay with the standard keyboard, he decided. Remington, Royal and Underwood have built typewriters with the Dvorak-Dealey arrangement, which the University of Washington Book Store has been vending. But the manufacturers are reluctant to put the new arrangement on the general market, for the millions of typists throughout the land have been trained at the present keyboard and human habit...
Just a year before that, another workman had been charged with sabotage. Few people took that very seriously. But the McDonald-Underwood story caused Navy-heckling Representative James V. McClintic of Oklahoma to demand, and get, an investigation by the Naval Affairs Committee. The Committee heard Goodyear-Zeppelin officials and Navy inspectors call the charges absurd. As a final gesture, the Committee set put to take a ride in the Akron. While the ship was being walked out of the dock before the Congressmen's eyes, a perverse wind dashed the Akron's tail against the ground, disabling...