Word: stockroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of the expense of evening operation should not prove difficult. The stockroom might be closed at 7 o'clock without great inconvenience to evening workers. In many courses, a definite scheme of analysis in a laboratory manual is followed, and instructors would be unnecessary. Only an occasional man need be retained, to keep order and insure the safety of the building...
Canadian-born Fred W. Ramsey began as stockroom boy with the Perfection Stove Co. (subsequently absorbed by the Cleveland Metal Products Co.). Then in his mid-teens, he joined the Cleveland Y. M. C. A. and soon became, in sequential progression, star Boarder, among other things. At one point during his religio-business career he was about to leave business to become a "Y" secretary, but a factory manager died, Ramsey took the job of expanding the plant. As a director of the potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial...
...carried from one department to another; rationing, by weight, of food in the White House kitchen; replacement of a torn White House flag by a new one, with the understanding that the torn one be mended and used elsewhere. When the President turned in a dull eraser, the stockroom returned it with the comment that no new ones had been provided...
...sugar coating schoolbook facts with the conventional love trash, he introduces an element which is both out of place and annoying. The heroine may be the cause of all the difficulty, for she is the worst-drawn character in the book; imported as she is from the stockroom of the modern author and compromisingly placed in an 1836-60 novel...