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Word: worke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David A. Schulte is behind Vivaudou, Inc. Nothing that David A. Schulte touches ever freezes. The entire business history of David Schulte has been centered on making capital work faster by setting loose forces that make merchandise move faster." So read an advertisement in the July, 1928, Drug Topics. Signing the statement was Vivaudou President Thomas J. McHugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Schulte's Lows | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...teachers, Mr. Fox visualized the time when 15,000,000 or 20,000,000 school children will have school hours reduced from six to three per day by listening to a talkie "educator" instead of to a teacher. Mr. Fox also planned to take talkies of famed surgeons at work and to distribute to churches pictures of religious leaders. The latter move Cineman Fox explained "on the theory that every man, woman and child will be a finer citizen if a God-fearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fox Jubilee | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Exposition visitors who chanced to be in Oklahoma City later in the week watched two figures, protected by metal shields and a heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

First Game. People who had figured that 35-year-old Spitballer Howard Ehmke would work in the series only if every other Philadelphia pitcher was sick or knocked out of the box, did not reckon on an odd understanding between Ehmke and Manager Connie Mack. Before the regular season ended Manager Mack sent Ehmke to scout the Cubs. He told a friend in confidence that though Ehmke had needed relief in each of the only two games he won for the Athletics this year, he would let him start if Ehmke said he wanted to. "He has one good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash yet. I don't see any reason to be hurrying about it anyhow. It ain't going to help me in my work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ashman | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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