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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give her a list of rich former patients. There were 338 of them. All - people like Mr. and Mrs. Breckinridge, Herbert Livingston Satterlee (Manhattan lawyer), Ira Clifton Copley (Illinois publisher), Mrs. Edith Oliver Rea (Pittsburgh iron and steel manufacturer), Joseph Pulitzer (whose father was blind), Daniel Willard (B. & O. R. R. president)-contributed handsomely. The Wilmer Institute with its professional staff and equipments outclasses any like organization in the U. S. and ranks equal to the great eye clinics at London, Paris, Munich, Zurich, Vienna. Indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: At Johns Hopkins | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...single employers of Antioch brawn and brain is General Motors Corp. Last year General Motors supplied positions at Oakland Motor Car Co. (Pontiac, Mich.), Frigidaire Corp. (Dayton), Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America (Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.), General Motors Proving Grounds (Milford, Mich.), Cadillac Motor Car Co. (Detroit), Chevrolet Grey Iron Foundry (Saginaw, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Antioch | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Caldbeck churchyard the sentimental sportsmen, primed for song, were shocked to find that persons unknown had covered the historic tombstone of John Peel with sheet iron, obliterating his name, and the fox, hounds and horn graven thereon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: John Peel | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Central Alloy Steel Corp. Plans of Cleveland's Cyrus S. Eaton to form a giant alloy and special steel company were rumored when last week the Central Alloy Steel Corp. with which Mr. Eaton is identified, acquired the Interstate Iron and Steel Co. Central Alloy is the dominant U. S. producer of alloy steels. Interstate is a large manufacturer of iron and steel bars and general wire products, with plants adapted to the production of alloy steels. Donner Steel Co. is another manufacturer of special steels recently Eatonized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Very few people know exactly what a mine looks like," the commander of the "Oglala" continued. He pointed to several which were left in the hold. They are large cylindrical shells of iron which are filled with T. N. T. when needed. To each mine is attached a large square weight which serves as an anchor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain of Mine Layer "Oglala" Explains Workings of T.N.T. Sea Bomb--Ship Built in 1907 for Eastern Steamship Lines | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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