Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, one David Petros, Persian frankfurter vendor, went to the police station, moaned through an interpreter that his equipment had been stolen...
Favored as the prime floral gift, the orchid has been an object on which many a Wall Street dollar has been spent. Last week, however, to the orchid industry went 2,500,000 Wall Street dollars, not squandered, but carefully invested. The investors were Selected Industries, Inc., an investment company headed by R. S. Revnolds and the affiliated Reybarn Co., both of which are units in the $200,000,000 group of holding companies headed by Chas. D. Barney & Co. The investment was the purchase of Thomas Young Nurseries, Inc., of Bound Brook...
When in 1914 Tom Mercer Girdler went to work for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. he had reason to be pleased. For famed in Pittsburgh are the Joneses and the Laughlins, controlling the greatest "family" steel company. Hard-swearing, wearing his hat at all times to be ready for emergency mill calls, Mr. Girdler in turn pleased the Joneses and the Laughlins. So well did he please them that when last year they heard outside interests, represented by Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, were seeking General Manager Girdler, they made him president of Jones & Laughlin...
Last week, Monell Sayre went to a conference at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, one of Manhattan's newest, most expensive churches. The subject was not money but the "mystical element in the Christian faith." Pension Expert Sayre was the only lay speaker. He talked not on dollar-getting, but on "Mysticism to a Business Man." More and better preaching was what Mr. Sayre wanted. Parsons had propounded too much politics and social uplift, not enough mysticism, he said. What the workingman needed was an awareness of God. Said he: "If you try to talk Christianity to industrial...
Because Germany's great aircraft builder Dr. Claude Dornier frankly told the right U. S. industrial leaders last spring that he needed money to expand his manufacturing plants at Friedrichshafen, General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan last month went over to Friedrichshafen with a staff of engineers. They looked over the Dornier plant, machines and blue prints. They saw the 12-motored Do-X, which last fortnight carried 169 passengers over Lake Constance. Result was that Mr. Sloan bought for General Motors the licenses to manufacture Dornier planes in the U. S. General Motors lawyers immediately busied themselves...