Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vicente Gómez in a Guitar Recital (Decca). Three-disc album of Flamenco and other Spanish music composed (except for one number) and played by a 26-year-old Madrileño whose style is in its way as exciting as that of the great classicist Segovia...
...improvement of employe-owner relations, solution of social problems, or as an incentive to increase production. Labor leaders dislike it because it makes unionization more difficult; causes particular companies to deviate from standard union wage scales; represents deferred compensation which workers would rather have weekly; and, finally, opens the way to loss-sharing...
Francis Davis was no rubber man when the Du Fonts put him in to run U. S. Rubber in January 1929. He had worked his way through Yale, become an engineer, built fabulous Hopewell, Va. for the Du Fonts in Wartime, and moved up to manage various Du Pont enterprises. He had a record as a trouble shooter and a trouble shooter was what U. S. Rubber needed in 1929. This biggest unit in the industry had been internally unsound when the Du Fonts bought into it in 1927 and 1928. Francis Davis, diagnosed its troubles as twofold: the general...
...says, 'Gerson, what do you have that is appetizing to which heat has been applied?' And Brown says, 'I always have toast in the morning.' My father says, 'That is it-It is toasted.' And my father created the phrase that way...
Just go years ago, he said, an ambitious youngster fresh from Ireland named Andrew Charles opened a plain grocery store on the corner of Orchard and Delancey Streets, Manhattan. His cousin George soon joined him. In the late 505 the pair moved way uptown (22nd Street) to cater to the carriage trade. As the city grew, George urged moving again; Andrew wanted to stay near Gramercy Park. George moved, Andrew stayed. George proved the wiser, for the very year he set up on 43rd Street, Grand Central Station moved right across the street, and his store flourished...