Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work-roughened hand of the steelmaker joined figuratively last week with the delicate hand of the jeweler in a dance of delight. The Senate Finance Committee recommended tariff changes on items of vital concern to each...
Casual, amused observers wondered if the distinction is worth making. Perhaps it is in Colon. By edict of Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes no young woman classified as an "entertainer" will be allowed to work in a Colon cabaret without a health certificate from Dr. Carlos Beiberach, Dr. Peralta Ortega, or Dr. Daniel R. Oduber. Bona fide "artists" will sing, dance or perform comic numbers uncertified...
...Seattle, likewise, the same tendency was at work last week. There was announced the merger of three banks. First National, Dexter Horton National, Seattle National. This merger, with $10,000,000 of capital surplus and undivided profits, will have total resources of over $119,000,000. What is more it will have a $2,000,000 securities company, with a name that could only be more imposing if written in the German fashion: First-seattledexterhortonsecuritiescompany. But Seattle is a city two and one-fourth times as large as Des Moines, and its achievement is of a different calibre...
Chairman of the new bank is to be Louis Charles Kurtz, 62, jocularly called a tinner because he learned that trade in his father's wholesale hardware, plumbing and heating supplies company. To him was left the responsibility for a bank when its president went off to work for the famed Chicago Banker-Brothers Reynolds, who were also onetime Des Moines bankers...
...third company was called the Ford Motor Co. The bicycle makers John and Horace Dodge made parts. James Couzens came from the traffic department of a coal yard for $2,500 a year. They paid $75 a month rent for a building; $250 to the Dodges for the working parts; $46 for four tires; $26 for four wheels; $52 for a body; $16 apiece for cushions; and $1.50 a day for workmen (ten or twelve). The car cost $554 complete and $594 with a tonneau and sold for $750 and $850. Ford himself got $3,000 a year, but Frederick...