Word: warren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toronto during the past fortnight was also the scene of some mechanical ingenuity. Hospital for Sick Children had only one mechanical respirator, and needed at least one more. The only professional manufacturers of this life-saving device are: Warren E. Collins, Inc. of Boston, which makes respirators designed by Professor Philip Drinker of Harvard's School of Public Health; and J. H. Emerson Co. of Cambridge, Mass., owned by John Haven Emerson, inventive son and namesake of New York City's onetime commissioner of health. The two companies long quarreled over patent infringements. Meanwhile, since 1929 only...
...delicacy now sold in the U. S. It is concocted in Philadelphia by Gum, Inc., which occupies five floors and the basement of a building on Woodland Avenue. The Blony process and Gum, Inc., are both creations of one of Philadelphia's lustiest characters, burly, brown-eyed Jacob Warren Bowman, whose business adventures have been many and remarkable...
...that it had been tried before, was hopeless. But Bowman was getting nearer to his destined specialty. On his way to Detroit to take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher knife deal." Within a year J. Warren Bowman himself was a topnotch gum salesman, exponent of the "Indian blanket deal" (one blanket with every 24 boxes) and part owner of a plant in Lansing, Mich., which turned out a 1? gum called "Ju-Ce-Kiss." In 1927 he started his own plant in Philadelphia, in 1929 produced...
...overlord of the feudal financial system of the unique U. S. city of Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon was an officer or director of 160 corporations and worth no one knew how much more than $500,000,000 in 1921 when Harry M. Daugherty is said to have suggested to Warren Gamaliel Harding that he would make a good Secretary of the Treasury. President-elect Harding answered: "I never heard of him," and in so doing expressed not only his own ignorance but that of the U. S. public...
Fogg Art Museum, the Faculty Club, Warren House--home of English A., The Union--Freshman social center, and housing in its basement the offices...