Word: cutter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amsterdam, Antwerp, London came the sound of many voices mourning the loss of a record Christmas buying season, blaming the recent stock market crash. In Manhattan, arose voices to differ with them. Authoritative among such voices was that of Walter N. Kahn, agile, dark president of the American Diamond Cutters Manufacturers Association, envoy from them to the U. S. Senate Finance Committee. Master diamond cutter is Mr. Kahn, able to instruct his many workmen to such good effect that diamonds cleave well, cut well, in trade parlance "run" well for him. Mr. Kahn blamed the unsettled state of the diamond...
...reclassification of printed material on business is being prosecuted by the Library under the supervision of W. P. Cutter. Most of the existing classifications of such material were developed before business came to be conceived of as a science or a field of study, and before any large literature had been developed in that province. The new classification, for which financial support is being supplied by the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation, is being prepared with the collaboration of librarians in charge of special business material, such as those in libraries of New York banking institutions...
This show, the third of the year, will be followed at intervals throughout the term by more exhibits of contemporary art. Exhibits which have been announced include paintings by Margaret Sargent McKelan: the work of five Boston watercolorists, Chase, Cutter, Hopkinson, Pepper, and Hopkins; contemporary Mexican...
...shrewd and able executive is Victor M. Cutter, onetime timekeeper and now President of United Fruit Co. Most famed North-Central American enterprise, U. F. C. is the largest fruit shipper (97 steamships in the Great White Fleet), largest landowner (2,000,000 acres in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Canary Islands, Jamaica, Nicaragua, England, France, U. S.), largest U. S. banana importer (1928: 33,872,000 stems). Last year the Great White Fleet carried 72,000 passengers. On land, United Fruit Co. operates 2,300 miles of railway and tramway, owns herds of 30,000 cattle...
...smallest tax upon President Cutter's shrewdness has been the necessity, increasing year by year, of impressing upon sensitive Central Americans that the great U. F. C., industrially dominant, is also the personal and political friend of each and every Latin American republic. Accordingly, last January, he wrote and published Foreign Trade's Golden Rule, explaining the essential economic unity of U. F. C. and the countries in which it operates. Accordingly, last week, he was vexed to find a rift in at least one of U. F. C.'s golden unities...